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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

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

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

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

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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