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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

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

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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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I would live to study, not study to live.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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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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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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Whatever you can, count.

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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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