A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACONTruth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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