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2845 quotesMan is an imagining being.
Imagination
Gaston Bachelard
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Success
Jim Backus
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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
Revenge
Francis Bacon
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Questions
Francis Bacon
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Opportunity
Francis Bacon
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Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
Atheism
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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God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
Gardening and Gardens
Francis Bacon
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Death and Dying
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 a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
Fear
Francis Bacon
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Knowledge
Francis Bacon
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Opposition
Francis Bacon
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Nature is commanded by obeying her.
Nature
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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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Humankind
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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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Responsibility
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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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 inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Silence
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