Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACONA prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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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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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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