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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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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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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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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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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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