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

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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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