There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
FRANCIS BACONIn taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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