A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACONIt is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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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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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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