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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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Always let losers have their words.

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

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

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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

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