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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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Knowledge is power.

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

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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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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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

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In charity there is no excess.

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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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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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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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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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