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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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Whatever you can, count.

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Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

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What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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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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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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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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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

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I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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