Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACONThe monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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