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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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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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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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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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Science is but an image of the truth.

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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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

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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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