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Quote by Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by st

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. – Francis Bacon

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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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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of mans body. – Francis Bacon

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Poetry
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon

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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. – Agatha Christie

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Ability without honor is useless. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Ability

No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development … That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination. – Colette Bowe

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Ability

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. – Andrew Carnegie

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Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Dont hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less. – Billy Sunday

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When I was a kid I didnt feel like I fit in because – this is really silly and I probably shouldnt say it, but, I didnt think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didnt think anything was funny. I couldnt laugh. – Courteney Cox

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Whatever I do, I hope its quality, I hope its something thats class. – Garth Brooks

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Let your prayers be humble, short, but energick. – Countess Dowager of Carlisle, Thoughts in the Form of Maxims addressed to Young

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