For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
FRANCIS BACONTruth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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