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“Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“The wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
“God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.”
“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”
“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
“The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.”
“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”
“Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half”
