Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
FRANCIS BACONMan prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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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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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Knowledge itself is power.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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