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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

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

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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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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