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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

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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 job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

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