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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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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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Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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Boldness is a child of ignorance

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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