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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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The worst men often give the best advice.

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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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We only have our nervous system to paint.

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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

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