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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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Time is the author of authors.

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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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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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