For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
FRANCIS BACONA man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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