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“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
Francis Bacon
Success & Achievement
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“As in nature, things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm.”
Francis Bacon
Success & Achievement
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“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
Francis Bacon
Beauty & Style
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“It is natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.”
Francis Bacon
Life & Experience
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“No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.”
Francis Bacon
Happiness & Well-being
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“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.”
Francis Bacon
Love & Relationships
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