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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

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Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.

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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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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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