Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
FRANCIS BACONThe remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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