There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
FRANCIS BACONHope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
FRANCIS BACON







