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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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Man was formed for society.

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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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All colours will agree in the dark.

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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

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Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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

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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

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