He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
FRANCIS BACONIt is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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Knowledge itself is power.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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