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All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

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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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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

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I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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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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The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

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