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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.

Francis Bacon

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Art Deep Job Mystery One Liner
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
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
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Deep Evil Himself Innovation Philosophy Time
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Believe Man One Liner True
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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One Liner Time Truth
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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God Philosophy Solitude
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Man Philosophy Reading Writing
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
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
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Book Eat Taste
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
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Master One Liner Servant
There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Beautiful Deep Strange
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Habit Life Philosophy

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