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8984 quotesA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Language
Gaston Bachelard
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Children
Gaston Bachelard
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
Words
Gaston Bachelard
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There is no original truth, only original error.
Mistakes
Gaston Bachelard
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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.
Knowledge
Sudie Back
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Opportunity
Francis Bacon
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
Improvement
Francis Bacon
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All colors will agree in the dark.
Prejudice
Francis Bacon
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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
Anger
Francis Bacon
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Fate
Francis Bacon
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Home
Francis Bacon
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Professions and Professionals
Francis Bacon
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Courtesy
Francis Bacon
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Fate
Francis Bacon
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Politicians and Politics
Francis Bacon
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It is natural to die as to be born.
Death and Dying
Francis Bacon
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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
Consistency
Francis Bacon
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
Money
Francis Bacon
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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Love
Francis Bacon
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Age and Aging
Francis Bacon
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Opportunity makes a thief.
Opportunity
Francis Bacon
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Humankind
Francis Bacon
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Doubt
Francis Bacon
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Painters and Painting
Francis Bacon
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Adversity
Francis Bacon
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun