There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
FRANCIS BACONMan prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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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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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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By far the best proof is experience.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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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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