Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
FRANCIS BACONReading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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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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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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