Francis Bacon Quotes
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
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A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.
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To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.
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I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
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One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.
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Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.
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I desire a violent, domineering, fearless, and ferocious upcoming generation. It must be able to bear pain. It must show no signs whatsoever of weakness or tenderness. The free and magnificent predator must once again glint from their eyes.
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Leave it to women to be cryptic rather than straightforward
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
