If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
FRANCIS BACONBooks must follow sciences and not sciences books.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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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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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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