Tag: Francis Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man’s nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

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Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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