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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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God loveth the clean.

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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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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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Praise is the reflection of virtue.

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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

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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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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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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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