The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery
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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man
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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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