There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
FRANCIS BACONIt is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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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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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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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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