For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
FRANCIS BACONIt is impossible to love and be wise.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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