It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
FRANCIS BACONA wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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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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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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