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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

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