There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
FRANCIS BACONTruth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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 job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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 is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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 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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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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