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Quote by Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not w

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. – Francis Bacon

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. – Francis Bacon

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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. – Francis Bacon

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There are only three sins – causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. – Roger Caras

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The scariest thought in the world is that someday Ill wake up and realize Ive been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. – George Saunders

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I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. – Bruce Lee

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Fear

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. Im not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted. – Harlan Coben

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I consider that a mans brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people. – Peter Jennings

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Its Gods will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. Its Gods will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt. – Joel Osteen

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But I do see the good side of water now. How good it is when you’re really thirsty, how it glitters and gurgles! How alive it is! – G.K. Chesterton, The Flying Inn, 1914

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