There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACONTruth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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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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Knowledge itself is power.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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