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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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

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

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Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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

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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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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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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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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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Friends are thieves of time.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

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