He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
FRANCIS BACONRead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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