Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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