A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACONThe less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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