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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.
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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.