They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACONWrite down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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 less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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