The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
FRANCIS BACONThe job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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