Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACONWhosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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