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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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Time is the greatest innovator.

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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

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

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I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see 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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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 no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

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