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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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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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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

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

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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

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Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

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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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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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