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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

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

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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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Boldness is a child of ignorance

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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

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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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