It is impossible to love and be wise.
FRANCIS BACONPhilosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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 man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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