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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

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I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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