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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

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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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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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

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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

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States, as great engines, move slowly.

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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

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

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