"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."
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"Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."
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"Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it."
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"That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet."
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"Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works."
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"It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final."
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"Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures."
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"The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so"
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"Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes."
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"The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds."
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"For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike."
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"There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances."
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"It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion."
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"I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion."
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"Time is the greatest innovator."
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"Time is the author of authors."
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"That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off."
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"The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own."
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"A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object."
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"Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period."
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