Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACONThere 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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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