Francis Bacon Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Men Quotes

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.

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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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Liberation is not deliverance.

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When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness I found Your forgiveness to be greater

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Through discipline comes freedom.

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This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

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When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

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If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

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