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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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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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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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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

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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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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

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