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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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

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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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

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God's first creature, which was light.

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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By far the best proof is experience.

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