A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACONSilence is the virtue of fools.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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.
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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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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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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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