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.
FRANCIS BACONTo suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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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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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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