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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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

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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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We only have our nervous system to paint.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

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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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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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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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