Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACONThe job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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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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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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