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Great changes are easier than small ones.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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Boldness is a child of ignorance

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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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In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.

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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

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

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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Man was formed for society.

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God loveth the clean.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

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Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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