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| Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. |
Francis Bacon |
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| The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. |
Francis Bacon |
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| We cannot command nature except by obeying her. |
Francis Bacon |
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| We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. |
Francis Bacon |
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| There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. |
Francis Bacon |
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| It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one. |
Francis Bacon |
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| The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. |
Francis Bacon |
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| A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion. |
Francis Bacon |
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| He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend. |
Francis Bacon |
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| For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves. |
Francis Bacon |
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| If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks. |
Francis Bacon |
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| If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. |
Francis Bacon |
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| If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. |
Francis Bacon |
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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. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. |
Francis Bacon |
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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. |
Francis Bacon |
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| It is impossible to love and to be wise. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Nothing is to be feared but fear. |
Francis Bacon |
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| The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study. |
Francis Bacon |
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| No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. |
Francis Bacon |
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| By far the best proof is experience. |
Francis Bacon |
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| He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. |
Francis Bacon |
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| I have taken all knowledge to by my province. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. |
Francis Bacon |
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| In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. |
Francis Bacon |
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| They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. |
Francis Bacon |
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| Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. |
Francis Bacon |
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| In charity there is no excess. |
Francis Bacon |
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| There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. |
Francis Bacon |
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| I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet. |
Bruce Sterling |
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| Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance |
Frank Moore Colby |
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| I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. |
Frank Moore Colby |
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| Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. |
Frank Moore Colby |
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| Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again. |
Frank Moore Colby |
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| Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love. |
Frank Moore Colby |
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| Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. |
Frank Moore Colby |
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| Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. |
Frank Moore Colby |
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| The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. |
Colin Wilson |
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| In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle. |
Colin Wilson |
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| After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. |
Bertha von Suttner |
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| I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. |
John Burroughs |
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| A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. |
John Burroughs |
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| The secret of happiness is something to do. |
John Burroughs |
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| The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it. |
John Burroughs |
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| Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. |
John Burroughs |
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| Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. |
John Burroughs |
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| The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. |
John Burroughs |
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| The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song |
John Burroughs |
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| It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. |
John Burroughs |
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| The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. |
John Burroughs |
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| Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. |
Robert W. Sarnoff |
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| The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit. |
John Leonard |
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| I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. |
Arnold Palmer |
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| Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. |
Arnold Palmer |
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| Judges don't age time decorates them. |
Enid Bagnold |
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| From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law. |
Leon Jaworski |
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| The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. |
Mark Russell |
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| The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it. |
Mark Russell |
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| For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments. |
James Brady |
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| It is not a loss of freedom. It's a measure to protect it. on gun control |
James Brady |
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| I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. |
Milton Berle |
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| Laughter is an instant vacation |
Milton Berle |
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| Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. |
Alexander Hamilton |
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| ...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion. |
Alexander Hamilton |
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| Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. |
Alexander Hamilton |
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| The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased. |
Alexander Hamilton |
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| In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. |
Alexander Hamilton |
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| Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. |
Alexander Hamilton |
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| Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes. |
Alexander Hamilton |
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| Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. |
Alexander Hamilton |
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| A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. |
Alexander Hamilton |
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| When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. |
Alexander Hamilton |
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| It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity. |
Alexander Hamilton |
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| Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful. |
Alexander Hamilton |
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| A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. |
Stanley Kubrick |
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| Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble. |
Stanley Kubrick |
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| The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. |
Stanley Kubrick |
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| The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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| I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
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