Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACONThe job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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