It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
FRANCIS BACONGod 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.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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Knowledge itself is power.
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If 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.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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 remedy is worse than the disease.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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