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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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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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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

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