Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACONBegin 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.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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