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God's first creature, which was light.

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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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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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Money is a great servant but a bad master.

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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