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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A bachelors life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. – Francis Bacon

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. – Francis Bacon

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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Others have done it before me. I can, too. – Corporal John Faunce

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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, thats good taste. – Lucille Ball

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Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self-amused dilettante, half-worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway. – Edward Abbey

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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar

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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. – Eugenio Montale

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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him. – David Herbert Lawrence

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