A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACONBy far the best proof is experience.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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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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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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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 comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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