Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
FRANCIS BACONAge appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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