Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
FRANCIS BACONAge appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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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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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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