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.
FRANCIS BACONChoose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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