Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACONThe remedy is worse than the disease.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.
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For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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