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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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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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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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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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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

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My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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

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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

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