It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.


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FRANCIS PICABIA
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatr...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
FRANCIS PICABIA
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES
The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
FRANCIS QUARLES
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
FRANCIS QUARLES
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ...
FRANCIS BACON
People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and ...
FRANCIS BACON
Science is but an image of the truth.
FRANCIS BACON
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and co...
FRANCIS BACON
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
FRANCIS BACON
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortun...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACON
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...
FRANCIS BACON
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
FRANCIS BACON
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
FRANCIS BACON
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
FRANCIS BACON
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON
All colors will agree in the dark.
FRANCIS BACON
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far...
FRANCIS BACON
It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
FRANCIS BACON