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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

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Knowledge is power.

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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

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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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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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By far the best proof is experience.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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