Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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