If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
FRANCIS BACONIf money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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