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Francis Bacon Quotes: The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
         

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.


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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

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