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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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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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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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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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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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