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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

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
There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Deep Light Philosophy Reflection Way
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Deep Hard Speak Truth
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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Book Creation God Himself Religious Writing
Silence is the virtue of fools.
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One Liner Silence Virtue
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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Atheist Deep Man Mind Philosophy Religion
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
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Friendship Solitude True
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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Deep Lost Man Old Philosophy Time Young
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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One Liner Time Truth
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
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
Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Good Philosophy
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Man Philosophy Reading Writing
By far the best proof is experience.
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Evidence Experience Far

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