The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
FRANCIS BACONThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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