Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
FRANCIS BACONFor friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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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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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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