The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
FRANCIS BACONFor a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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