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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

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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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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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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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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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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

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