Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
FRANCIS BACONPhilosophy 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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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