Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACONBooks must follow sciences and not sciences books.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Knowledge itself is power.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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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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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 are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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