There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACONReading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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