Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
FRANCIS BACONThe job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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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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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Knowledge itself is power.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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