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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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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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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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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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In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

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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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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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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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