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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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

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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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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

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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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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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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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God's first creature, which was light.

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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