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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels 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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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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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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Science is but an image of the truth.

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