Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACONSilence is the virtue of fools.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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