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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Francis Bacon

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Man Philosophy Reading Writing
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Master One Liner Servant
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Deep Fear Limit One Liner Suffering
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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Enemy Man Philosophy Revenge
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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Believe Philosophy Reading Talk
Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Command Nature One Liner
The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Interest People Sex
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Deep Discover Land Philosophy Sea Think
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Deep Lost Philosophy Success Try
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
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Deep Doubt Excitement Philosophy Study
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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History Man Mathematics Nature Philosophy Poet Wise
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Deep Greatness People Philosophy Speak Think
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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Beginning Deep Doubt End Man Philosophy
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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Beginning Forever Hands Live Melt Moment Stars
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

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