Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
FRANCIS BACONBooks must follow sciences and not sciences books.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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