Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
FRANCIS BACONFor friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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 job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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