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Francis Bacon: Pictures and shapes...

Francis Bacon: Pictures and shapes...

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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Francis Bacon: The mould of...

Francis Bacon: The mould of...

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

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Francis Bacon: Nothing is pleasant...

Francis Bacon: Nothing is pleasant...

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Saint Augustine: Don't you believe...

Saint Augustine: Don't you believe...

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it...

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Saint Augustine: The playthings of...

Saint Augustine: The playthings of...

The playthings of our elders are called business.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The power which...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The power which...

The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know...

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Peace Pilgrim: The valid research...

Peace Pilgrim: The valid research...

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

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William Shakespeare: And simple truth...

William Shakespeare: And simple truth...

And simple truth miscalled simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill.


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William Shakespeare: I like not...

William Shakespeare: I like not...

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

Source: The Merchant of Venice, I. iii....

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William Shakespeare: If to do...

William Shakespeare: If to do...

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes'...

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George Bernard Shaw: The man who...

George Bernard Shaw: The man who...

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all...

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William Wordsworth: I travelled among...

William Wordsworth: I travelled among...

I travelled among unknown men,
In lands beyond the sea;
Nor England! did I know till then
What love I bore to...

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William Wordsworth: If this belief...

William Wordsworth: If this belief...

If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature's holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has...

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William Wordsworth: The waves beside...

William Wordsworth: The waves beside...

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In...

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William Wordsworth: Poetry is the...

William Wordsworth: Poetry is the...

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance...

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William Wordsworth: Golf is a...

William Wordsworth: Golf is a...

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Source: In The Golfer's Book...

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William Wordsworth: He spake of...

William Wordsworth: He spake of...

He spake of love, such love as spirits feel
In worlds whose course is equable and pure;
No fears to beat away -...

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William Wordsworth: Like a sea-beast...

William Wordsworth: Like a sea-beast...

Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf
Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun...

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William Wordsworth: Earth has not...

William Wordsworth: Earth has not...

Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its...

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William Wordsworth: She dwelt among...

William Wordsworth: She dwelt among...

She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very...

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