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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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God loveth the clean.

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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I would live to study, not study to live.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

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Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

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

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