It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
FRANCIS BACONIf we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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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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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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