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The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.


Francis Quarles

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D.M. TIMNEY It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
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BEAUTIFUL!
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DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
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FRANCIS QUARLES While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
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FRANCIS QUARLES A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
FRANCIS QUARLES The next way home's the farthest way about.
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FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
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FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
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POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
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FRANCIS BACON Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
FRANCIS BACON The essence of a man is found in his faults.
FRANCIS PICABIA For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit...
FRANCIS PICABIA A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
FRANCIS PICABIA To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b...
FRANCIS BACON Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
FRANCIS BACON Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON