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Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

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God loveth the clean.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.

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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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