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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Beauty
Francis Bacon

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
Discovery
Francis Bacon

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
Truth
Francis Bacon

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Francis Bacon

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Truth
Francis Bacon

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Questions
Francis Bacon

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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Marriage
Francis Bacon

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Action is the antidote to despair.
Despair
Joan Baez

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The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
Relationships
Joan Baez

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Politicians and Politics
Walter Bagehot

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Pleasure
Walter Bagehot

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A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Weddings
Walter Bagehot

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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Diplomacy
Walter Bagehot

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An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Silence
Walter Bagehot

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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
Men and Women
Walter Bagehot

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Innovation
Walter Bagehot

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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Belief
Walter Bagehot

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The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
Observation
Walter Bagehot

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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Writers and Writing
Walter Bagehot

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The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
Theater
Enid Bagnold

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.
God
Mira Bai

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Right human relations is the only true peace.
Peace
Alice A. Bailey

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
Faith
Henry Christopher Bailey

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
Change
Pearl Bailey

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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Fraud
Pearl Bailey

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun