Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
FRANCIS BACONNature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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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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