Francis Bacon Quotes, Life Quotes, Art Quotes

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Life Quotes , Fall Quotes

The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Outlive the newest stars.

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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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All ye that pass by! While we least think it he prepares his Mate. Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases, Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.

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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

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When in doubt tell the truth.

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Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

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Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

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I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order

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Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

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Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.

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Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

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In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

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Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

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There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

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And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!

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