Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACONChampagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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