A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACONThe best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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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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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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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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God 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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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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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