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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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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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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