They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACON
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Books must follow sciences and not sciences books.
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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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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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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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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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