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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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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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States, as great engines, move slowly.

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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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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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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

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