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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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By far the best proof is experience.

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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

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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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

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Boldness is a child of ignorance

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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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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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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

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