The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
FRANCIS BACONImagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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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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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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