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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

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Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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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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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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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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