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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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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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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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

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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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Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

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

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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

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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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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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