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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

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