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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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

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What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

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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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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

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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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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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

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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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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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

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