I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
FRANCIS BACONIn taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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