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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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Money is a great servant but a bad master.

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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

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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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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

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