Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
FRANCIS BACONThe monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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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 prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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