Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACONIn taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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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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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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