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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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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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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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By far the best proof is experience.

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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By indignities men come to dignities.

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

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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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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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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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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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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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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Always let losers have their words.

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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

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