Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
FRANCIS BACONNature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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