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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

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

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

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

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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

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

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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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