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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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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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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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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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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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I would live to study, not study to live.

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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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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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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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