Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACONThe best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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