The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
FRANCIS BACONNature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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