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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon

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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Beginning Forever Hands Live Melt Moment Stars
Silence is the virtue of fools.
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One Liner Silence Virtue
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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One Liner Power Survive
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Beautiful Best Expression
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
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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God Philosophy Solitude
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
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.
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Beginning Deep Doubt End Man Philosophy
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
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
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Greatness Master Money One Liner
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
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Friendship Solitude True
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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One Liner Wisdom
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Deep Doubt Excitement Philosophy Study
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Believe Man One Liner True
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Deep Lost Philosophy Success Try
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Hide Nature Overcome
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
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Find Inspirational Man Opportunity Wise
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Deep Greatness People Philosophy Speak Think
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
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
The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Interest People Sex
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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One Liner Time Truth
The remedy is worse than the disease.
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One Liner Worst
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

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