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• The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.
• The desire to know is natural to good men.
• Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.
• I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.
• A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this…
• It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
• Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end…
• Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
• If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
• A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter…
• Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
• After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as…

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