Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACONNature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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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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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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