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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

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The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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In charity there is no excess.

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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

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

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If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

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We only have our nervous system to paint.

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