The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
FRANCIS BACONNature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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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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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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God 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.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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