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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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