A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACONThere is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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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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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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