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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Francis Bacon

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Accomplishment Achieve Inspirational
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Deep Hard Speak Truth
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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One Liner Time Truth
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Habit Life Philosophy
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Friendship Solitude True
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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History Man Mathematics Nature Philosophy Poet Wise
Knowledge itself is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power Strength
There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Beautiful Deep Strange
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
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
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 cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Command Nature One Liner
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
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Bold Greatness Mad One Liner
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
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Man Philosophy Reading Writing

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