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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. - Francis Bacon

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. – Francis Bacon

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. – Francis Bacon

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Atheism
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Francis Bacon
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon

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Generosity
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Francis Bacon
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One must learn a different… sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. – Sister Mary Paul

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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell

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Time

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. – Henry David Thoreau

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Ive spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world. – Billy Graham

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