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 BACONThe less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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