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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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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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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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We only have our nervous system to paint.

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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.

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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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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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Innovations, which are the births of time.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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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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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

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