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.
- Sir Francis Bacon
Silence Is The Virtue Of Fools.
There Is No Excellent Beauty That Hath Not Some Strangeness In The Proportion.
There Be Three Things Which Make A Nation Great And Prosperous: A Fertile Soil, Busy Workshops, Easy Conveyance For Men And Goods From Place To Place.
Man Seeketh In Society Comfort, Use And Protection.
Read Not To Contradict And Confute, Nor To Find Talk And Discourse, But To Weigh And Consider.
In Charity There Is No Excess.
A Wise Man Will Make More Opportunities Than He Finds.
Reading Maketh A Full Man, Conference A Ready Man, And Writing An Exact Man.
By Far The Best Proof Is Experience.
In Taking Revenge, A Man Is But Even With His Enemy; But In Passing It Over, He Is Superior.
In This Theater Of Man’s Life, It Is Reserved Only For God And For Angels To Be Lookers-On.
Praise From The Common People Is Generally False, And Rather Follows The Vain Than The Virtuous.
Revenge Is A Kind Of Wild Justice, Which The More Man’s Nature Runs To The More Ought Law To Weed It Out.
Discretion In Speech Is More Than Eloquence.
Knowledge Is Power.
Whosoever Is Delighted In Solitude Is Either A Wild Beast Or A God.
Ask Counsel Of Both Times-Of The Ancient Time What Is Best, And Of The Latter Time What Is Fittest.
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