Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACONBy far the best proof is experience.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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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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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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