Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
FRANCIS BACONThe worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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 are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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