"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
-Francis Bacon
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"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.“
-Francis Bacon
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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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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
-Marshall McLuhan
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