Money is a great servant but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACONImagination 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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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Knowledge itself is power.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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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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