To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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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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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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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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