There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACONThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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 job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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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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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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