There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACONThere Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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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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