If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
FRANCIS BACONI will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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