Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
FRANCIS BACONNature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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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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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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