Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
FRANCIS BACONTruth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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Knowledge itself is power.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Money is a great servant but a bad 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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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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