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Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed


Walter Raleigh Sr.

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FRANCIS BACON SR. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him f...
FRANCIS BACON SR. The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery
FRANCIS BACON, SR. We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and cu...
JON HUNTSMAN, SR. I can't understand how this all transpired.
DAVID MOSS SR Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all...
RICHARD STEELE SR. [Knowledge is] a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the l...
FRANCIS BACON SR. Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave I...
WILLIAM TEMPLE SR. What then remains but that we still should cry for being born, and, being born, to die?
FRANCIS BACON SR. George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR. What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puz...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Life is itself but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
THOMAS BROWNE SR. I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to pros...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Certainly there is no happiness within this circle of flesh, nor is it in the optics of these eyes t...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. A rich man's joke is always funny
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