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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

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It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

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