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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

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Always let losers have their words.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

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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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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

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