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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is nec...   Art
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using...  
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings ha...  
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other sens...  
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you com...  
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her...  
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes...  
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards shi...  
Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more sim...   Nature
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough...  
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quali...  
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from di...  
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and...  
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even...  
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment r...  
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.  
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You ...  
Life well spent is long.  
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of...  
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active...  
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.  
Our life is made by the death of others.  
People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday Schoo...  
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.  
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsi...  
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case ...  
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.  
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.  
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible ...  
There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for so...  
Water is the driving force of all nature.  
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with...  
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.  
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning ...   Death
Who sows virtue reaps honor.  
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imaginati...  
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not un...