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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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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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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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We only have our nervous system to paint.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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