The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
FRANCIS BACONThe less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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 man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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