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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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. – Francis Bacon

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

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. – Charles Caleb Colton

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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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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. – Douglas Everett

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Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. – Pauline R. Kezer

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I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan. – Tori Spelling

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The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins. – Neil Kinnock

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