Quote by Francis Bacon
By indignities men come to dignities. - Francis Bacon

By indignities men come to dignities. – Francis Bacon

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. – Francis Bacon

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Doubt
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Philosophical
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They that deny a God destroy mans nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. – Francis Bacon

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God
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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Men

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. – Alice Walker

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Men

The only really happy folk are married women and single men. – H. L. Mencken

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Men

The most positive men are the most credulous. – Alexander Pope

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Men

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The first proof of a persons incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others. – B. R. Hayden

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Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up. – Chris Fedak and Allison Adler, Chuck, “Chuck Versus the Ring”

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford

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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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