Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACONNature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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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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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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