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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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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

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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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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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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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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

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Great changes are easier than small ones.

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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The place of justice is a hallowed place.

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

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Always let losers have their words.

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Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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