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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

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Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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In charity there is no excess.

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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

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Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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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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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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