For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
FRANCIS BACONIf a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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