Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
FRANCIS BACONThe monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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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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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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