Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
FRANCIS BACONHistories 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 monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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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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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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