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.
FRANCIS BACONRead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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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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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Knowledge itself is power.
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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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