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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

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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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All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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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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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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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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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

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