Quote by Francis Bacon
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. - Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. – Francis Bacon

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. – Francis Bacon

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Fortune
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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. – Francis Bacon

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Philosophy
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best. – Sophocles

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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. – Simone Weil

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My nominee for Best Picture of the year – maybe the best picture ever, because its essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies – is Christian Marclays endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece The Clock. – Jerry Saltz

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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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