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Quote by Francis Bacon
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and m

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. – Francis Bacon

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon

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One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals. – Ayelet Waldman

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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand. – Federico Garcia Lorca

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I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they dont live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it. – Criss Angel

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Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. – John Dryden

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The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friends birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember peoples birthdays. – Julianna Margulies

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What a hero Tom was become now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him. – Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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