They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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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 job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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