The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
FRANCIS BACONIt is impossible to love and be wise.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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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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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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