Quote by Francis Bacon
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks

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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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. – Francis Bacon

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. – Francis Bacon

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. – Francis Bacon

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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. – John Stuart Mill

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. – Denis Waitley

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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. – Olympia Brown

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. – Bertrand Russell

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