Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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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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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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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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