They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACONThere is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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