I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
FRANCIS BACONHope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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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.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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