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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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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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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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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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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

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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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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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

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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

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