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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Hide Nature Overcome
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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Age Best Burn Deep Friendship Old Philosophy Trust Wine
For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Book Deep Friendship Good True
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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Company Love Philosophy Talk
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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Deep Die Fate Philosophy Sad
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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Desire Heart Life Philosophy Tragedy
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Book Eat Taste
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Beautiful Best Expression
By far the best proof is experience.
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Evidence Experience Far
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Deep Doubt Excitement Philosophy Study
Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Knowledge One Liner Seed Wonder
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake.
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Forever Hands Inspirational Live Moment Stars
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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One Liner Wisdom
I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Age Man Myself Old Philosophy
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Deep Hard Speak Truth
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Deep Greatness People Philosophy Speak Think

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