If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
FRANCIS BACONMoney is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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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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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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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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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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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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