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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

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Innovations, which are the births of time.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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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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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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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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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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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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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

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