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Quote by Francis Bacon
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; na

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. – Francis Bacon

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Men
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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Certainty
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Value people on their potential, not on their history. – Bo Bennett

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God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended. – David Wilkerson

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History is always changing. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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History

History: gossip well told. – Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary

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In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe. – David Bohm

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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. – Baruch Spinoza

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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams

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You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. – The Epic of Gilgamesh

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