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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

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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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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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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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I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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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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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

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