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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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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

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

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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

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

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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

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The worst men often give the best advice.

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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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