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101 " There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. "
― Francis Bacon
102 " If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted "
103 " The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. "
104 " Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends "
105 " 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 are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. "
― Francis Bacon , The Essays
106 " There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. "
107 " Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. "
108 " The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. "
109 " Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. "
110 " Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion. "
111 " Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity. "
112 " The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship. "
113 " 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. "
114 " Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around. "
115 " Silence is the virtue of fools. "
116 " The remedy is worse than the disease. "
117 " A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. "
118 " He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. "
119 " By far the best proof is experience. "
120 " He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. "