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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

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
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
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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Age Best Burn Deep Friendship Old Philosophy Trust Wine
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
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Deep Discover Land Philosophy Sea Think
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Book Science
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Art Deep Job Mystery One Liner
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Bad Food Good Hope One Liner
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Man Philosophy Reading Writing
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Believe Man One Liner True
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
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
There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Beautiful Deep Strange
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
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

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