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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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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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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

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

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

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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 hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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