Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
FRANCIS BACONTruth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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