The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
FRANCIS BACONIf we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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