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Quote by Francis Bacon
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end i

In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. – Chinese Proverb

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world. – Bernard Baruch

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A mans life is what his thoughts make of it. – Marcus Aurelius

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There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them. – Charles Baudelaire

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