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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

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

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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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God loveth the clean.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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