For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
FRANCIS BACONAge 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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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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