The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
FRANCIS BACONThere are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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