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FRANK's Components of Creativity
Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter.Source: Essays, 7,...
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Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. More about this quote...
The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men.Source:...
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. More about this quote...
If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.Source: Essays,...
There are some other that account wife and children but as bills of charges. More about this quote...
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.Source:...
As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of...
Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power pressed too far, and relaxed too...
In civil business; what first? Boldness; what second, and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance...
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either...
Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.Source: Essays, 'Of Wisdom...
God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. More about this quote...
Cure the disease and kill the patient.Source: Essays, 'Of Friendship'--...
Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it. More about this quote...
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so...
The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in...
To choose time is to save time.Source: Essays, 'Of Dispatch'-- Francis Bacon,...
In charity there is no excess.Source: Essays, 'Of Goodness, and Goodness of...
Neither is money the sinews of war (as it is trivially said).Source: Essays, 29,...
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