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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

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I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

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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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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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

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

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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