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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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Friends are thieves of time.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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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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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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