A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACON
For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Books must follow sciences and not sciences books.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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