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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

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Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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

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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

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