There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACONIf 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.
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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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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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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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