Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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 money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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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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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 man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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