Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
FRANCIS BACONGod 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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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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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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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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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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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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