Francis Bacon Quotes
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I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
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Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.
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What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.
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What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.
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The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.
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Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.
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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
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The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.
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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.
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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
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There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point of all goodness. It comes bringing with it, if not the freshness of innocence, yet a glow of inspiration that nerves feeble hands for hard tasks, a fire of hope that lights anew the old high ideal, so that it stands before the eye in clear relief, beckoning to make it out on its own.
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I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
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Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.
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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.
