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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Francis Bacon

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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Deep Die Fate Philosophy Sad
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
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
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Master One Liner Servant
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
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Believe Man One Liner 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
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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God Philosophy Solitude
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Beautiful Best Expression
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
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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Believe Philosophy Reading Talk
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Book Science
Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Command Nature One Liner
For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Book Deep Friendship Good True
It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Deep Impossible Love One Liner Wise

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