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.
FRANCIS BACONNature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects 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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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