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Francis Bacon
"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt."
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"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order."
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Communication
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"Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons"
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Fathers
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"Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business."
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study"
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Ability
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"There is superstition in avoiding superstitions"
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"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
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Beauty English Philosopher
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"In charity there is no excess."
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Charity
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"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall."
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Angels
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"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."
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Certainty
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"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."
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Advise English Philosopher
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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior"
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Man
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"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
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History
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"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
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English Philosopher Friends Or Friendship
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"Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had"
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"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid"
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