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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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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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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
Nonviolence
Joan Baez

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

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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Mind
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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They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
Forgiveness
Josiah 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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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
America
Philip James Bailey

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The worst men often give the best advice.
Advice
Philip James Bailey

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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.
Doubt
Philip James Bailey

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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Beginning
Ivy Baker

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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Goals
Russell (Wayne) Baker

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