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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

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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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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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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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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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God loveth the clean.

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The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

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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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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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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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

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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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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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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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