The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
FRANCIS BACONA prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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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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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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