"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"Time is the measure of business."

Bacon, Francis on time   

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"That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain."

Bacon, Francis on change
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"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider."

Bacon, Francis on books - reading
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"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

Bacon, Francis on beauty
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"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."

Bacon, Francis on beauty
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"I would live to study, and not study to live."

Bacon, Francis on studying   

"The best armor is to keep out of gunshot."

Bacon, Francis on strategies
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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

Bacon, Francis on solitude
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"Silence is the virtue of fools."

Bacon, Francis on silence
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"People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business."

Bacon, Francis on servants   

"Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion."

Bacon, Francis on truth   

"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."

Bacon, Francis on trying
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"Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety."

Bacon, Francis on variety   

"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses."

Churchill, Winston on communism and socialism
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"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."

Churchill, Winston on words
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"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

Churchill, Winston on change
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"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on success
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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

Churchill, Winston on risk
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"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston on opportunity
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"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."

Churchill, Winston on mistakes
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"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."

Bacon, Francis on courtesy
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"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."

Bacon, Francis on adaptability
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"Science is but an image of the truth."

Bacon, Francis on science
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"The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands."

Bacon, Francis on responsibility
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"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."

Bacon, Francis on fear
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"Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."

Bacon, Francis on fate   

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"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."

Bacon, Francis on fate   

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"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."

Bacon, Francis on family
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"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."

Bacon, Francis on doubt   

"In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

Bacon, Francis on doubt
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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea."

Bacon, Francis on discovery
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"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."

Bacon, Francis on desire
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"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging
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"Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

Bacon, Francis on history and historians
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"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

Bacon, Francis on humor
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"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."

Bacon, Francis on questions
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