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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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Company Love Philosophy Talk
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Book Science
Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Command Nature One Liner
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
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Deep Doubt Excitement Philosophy Study
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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God Philosophy Solitude
By far the best proof is experience.
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Evidence Experience Far
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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One Liner Time Truth
It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Deep Impossible Love One Liner Wise
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
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Deep Greatness People Philosophy Speak Think
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
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
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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Deep Imagination Man Philosophy
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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