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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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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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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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