Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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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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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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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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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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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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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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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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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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