For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
FRANCIS BACONSome books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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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 monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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 prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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