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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Francis Bacon

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON

Moment Value Writing
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON

Age Best Burn Deep Friendship Old Philosophy Trust Wine
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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Believe Philosophy Reading Talk
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Hide Nature Overcome
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Art Deep Job Mystery One Liner
For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
FRANCIS BACON

Book Deep Friendship Good True
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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Beginning Forever Hands Live Melt Moment Stars
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Deep Fear Limit One Liner Suffering
Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Command Nature One Liner
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON

Book Eat Taste
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
FRANCIS BACON

History Man Mathematics Nature Philosophy Poet Wise
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Bold Greatness Mad One Liner
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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God Philosophy Solitude
Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON

One Liner Silence Virtue
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Master One Liner Servant
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
FRANCIS BACON

Deep Die Fate Philosophy Sad

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