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Opportunity makes a thief.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

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

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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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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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

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Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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