The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
FRANCIS BACONHistories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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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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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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