Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
FRANCIS BACONNature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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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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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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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