Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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