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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

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Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

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Man was formed for society.

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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

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I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

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

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