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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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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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Opportunity makes a thief.

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

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In charity there is no excess.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

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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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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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