Thought of the Day A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Today's Birthday Sir Richard ArkwrightInventor, British(1732) An inventor and a leading entrepreneur who invented mechanized spinning processes such as a spinning frame powered by water. ...
... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured. — David Hood 41 ... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is...
... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time—or for whatever time may be left to us. Nature ... is a prodigal of pain. I should like to find a day when we can take a holiday, a day of ...
It will be acknowledged even by those that practice it not, that clear and round dealing is the honor of man’s nature; and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. (Sir Francis Bacon, English ...
Bacon, Francis (Sir) (1561-1626), English philosopher, British Lord Chancellor: "A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out." The Advancement of Learning, 1605." ...
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world. Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of du...
(Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561–1626) Grateful people are happy people. (Unknown) Only free men are thoroughly grateful to one another. (Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, 1632–1677) There shall be eternal summer in a grateful heart. ...
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."Bacon, Francis1561 -1626, English Philosopher, Lawyer, and Author "I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone reco...
Perhaps he means poet and playwright of stage comedy, Ben Jonson (1572-1637), also referred to in the book as “Benjamin Johnson” and once as “Dr. Johnson.” Note that Francis Bacon (1561-1626) died well before the life of writer Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). ...
~Francis Bacon (1561–1626), The Historie of Life and Death, 1638 At a certain point, age becomes a triumph of spirit over loneliness. ~Terri Guillemets ...so wrinkled, so frail, so lonely... ~Elizabeth Ewing, "The Old Piano," 1909 Though the hair be gray, Age have come to stay...