Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
FRANCIS BACONWonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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 remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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