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Sir Francis Bacon
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"Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." -
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Top 5 quotes from Sir Francis Bacon
"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator."
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
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"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."
"You never find yourself until you face the truth."
"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside."
"It matters not how long we live but how."
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