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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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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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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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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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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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