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Science is but an image of the truth.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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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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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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To know truly is to know by causes.

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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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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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