Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
FRANCIS BACONChampagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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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 two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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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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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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