Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
FRANCIS BACONThere is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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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 best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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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 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.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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 remedy is worse than the disease.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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