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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

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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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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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

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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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

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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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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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If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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