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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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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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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

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

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I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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Always let losers have their words.

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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

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By indignities men come to dignities.

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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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Great changes are easier than small ones.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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