"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

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"Time is the measure of business."

Bacon, Francis on Time and Time Management
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"That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain."

Bacon, Francis on Change
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"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider."

Bacon, Francis on Books - Reading
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"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

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"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."

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"I would live to study, and not study to live."

Bacon, Francis on Studying
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"The best armor is to keep out of gunshot."

Bacon, Francis on Strategies
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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

Bacon, Francis on Solitude
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"Silence is the virtue of fools."

Bacon, Francis on Silence
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"People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business."

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"Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion."

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"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."

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"Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety."

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"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses."

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"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."

Churchill, Winston on Words
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"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

Churchill, Winston on Change
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"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

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"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

Churchill, Winston on Perseverance
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

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"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."

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"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."

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"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."

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"Science is but an image of the truth."

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"The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands."

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"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."

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"Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."

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"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."

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"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."

Bacon, Francis on Family
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"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."

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"In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea."

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"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."

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"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

Bacon, Francis on Age and Aging
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"Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied."

Bacon, Francis on Age and Aging
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

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"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

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"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

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"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."

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