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Francis Bacon: It is impossible...

Francis Bacon: It is impossible...

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Source: 'Of Love'
-- Francis Bacon, (Jan...

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Francis Bacon: Revenge is a...

Francis Bacon: Revenge is a...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it...

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Francis Bacon: Medicine is a...

Francis Bacon: Medicine is a...

Medicine is a science which hath been, as we have said, more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than...

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Francis Bacon: Like strawberry wives,...

Francis Bacon: Like strawberry wives,...

Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were...

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Francis Bacon: The pencil of...

Francis Bacon: The pencil of...

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of...

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Francis Bacon: Read not to...

Francis Bacon: Read not to...

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh...

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Francis Bacon: God Almighty first...

Francis Bacon: God Almighty first...

God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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Aristotle: We give up...

Aristotle: We give up...

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Skill to do...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Skill to do...

Skill to do comes of doing.

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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882),...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: So of cheerfulness,...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: So of cheerfulness,...

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Science does not...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Science does not...

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The miracles of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The miracles of...

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The compensations of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The compensations of...

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The faith that...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The faith that...

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Source: Essays, 'The...

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NOMINATE, v. To...

NOMINATE, v. To...

NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the...

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PHILISTINE, n. One...

PHILISTINE, n. One...

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and...

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OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That...

OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That...

OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly...

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PASSPORT, n. A...

PASSPORT, n. A...

PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him...

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PRUDE, n. A...

PRUDE, n. A...

PRUDE, n. A bawd hiding behind the back of her demeanor.

Source: The Devil's...

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RAILROAD, n. The...

RAILROAD, n. The...

RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better...

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