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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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

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States, as great engines, move slowly.

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

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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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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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