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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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

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

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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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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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Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

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

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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

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