To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
FRANCIS BACONTruth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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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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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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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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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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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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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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