He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
FRANCIS BACONThe job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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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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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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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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