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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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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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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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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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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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