Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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There is one radical distinction between different minds that some minds are stronger and apter to mark the differences of things, others mark their resemblances.Francis Bacon
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake...
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For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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