For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
FRANCIS BACONThere Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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