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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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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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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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