There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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 we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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