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.
FRANCIS BACONMan prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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