"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
-Francis Bacon
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.“
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"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
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"Knowledge is power."
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"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."
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"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."
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"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
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"A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing."
-Mary Schmich
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."
-Marianne Williamson
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"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
-Simone de Beauvoir
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"Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."
-Graham Greene
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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