There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
FRANCIS BACONWonder is the seed of knowledge.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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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 man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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 job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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