Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACONThere is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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 taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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