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Money is a great servant but a bad master.

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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

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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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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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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

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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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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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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

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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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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

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