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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

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Time is the author of authors.

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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

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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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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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

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But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

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