A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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