Quote by Francis Bacon
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. – Francis Bacon

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. – Francis Bacon

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Change
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He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both. – Francis Bacon

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Advice
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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to mens manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. – Francis Bacon

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Nudity
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Fate & Destiny
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What do I know of mans destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. – Samuel Beckett

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Fate & Destiny

For such is God our God, forever and ever. He will guide us until death. Psalm 48:14 – Bible

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Fate & Destiny

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. – James Allen

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Fate & Destiny

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. – Yiddish Proverb

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Fate & Destiny

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That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Brevity
[I]n the gloomy month of February…. The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time… – Washington Irving, Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography, 1849

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. – Brian Tracy

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Fear

The law is reason, free from passion. – Aristotle

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Law