Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
FRANCIS BACONWrite down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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