It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
FRANCIS BACONReading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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 so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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