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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Francis Bacon

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
FRANCIS BACON

Book Science
Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Knowledge One Liner Seed Wonder
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Master One Liner Servant
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Hide Nature Overcome
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Deep Lost Philosophy Success Try
Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Command Nature One Liner
There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Deep Light Philosophy Reflection Way
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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Believe Philosophy Reading Talk
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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One Liner Time Truth
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Book Eat Taste
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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History Man Mathematics Nature Philosophy Poet Wise
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Believe Man One Liner True
I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Age Man Myself Old Philosophy
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Deep Doubt Excitement Philosophy Study
If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Accomplishment Achieve Inspirational
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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Forever Hands Inspirational Live Moment Stars

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