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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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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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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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Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

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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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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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