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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.

Francis Bacon

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
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Bright Darkness Deep Inspirational Light Present Shine
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
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
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Art Deep Job Mystery 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
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
The remedy is worse than the disease.
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One Liner Worst
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Man Philosophy Reading Writing
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
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Deep Hard Speak Truth
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
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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Beginning Forever Hands Live Melt Moment Stars
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
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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Deep Imagination Man Philosophy
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Habit Life Philosophy
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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One Liner Time Truth
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Find Inspirational Man Opportunity Wise
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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Moment Value Writing
Knowledge itself is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power Strength
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
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
The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Interest People Sex
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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One Liner Power Survive

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