Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
FRANCIS BACONGreat boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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