The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
FRANCIS BACONThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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