Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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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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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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