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Riches are for spending.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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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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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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

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

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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

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Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

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

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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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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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