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12346 quotesStudies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Learning
Francis Bacon
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
Doubt
Francis Bacon
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
Strategies
Francis Bacon
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Beauty
Francis Bacon
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Wealth
Francis Bacon
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Proverbs
Francis Bacon
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Nature
Francis Bacon
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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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Time is the measure of business.
Time and Time Management
Francis Bacon
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Virtue
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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Solitude
Francis Bacon
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Present
Francis Bacon
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A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.
Minorities
Leo Baeck
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A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
Neighbors
Arthur Baer
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A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
Newspapers
Arthur Baer
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Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
Alimony
Arthur Baer
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
Nonviolence
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 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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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Progress
Walter Bagehot
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun