Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.Francis Bacon
For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.
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He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
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