It is impossible to love and be wise.
FRANCIS BACONTo suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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