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 BACONA prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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