In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
FRANCIS BACONHope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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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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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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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