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 BACONWonder is the seed of knowledge.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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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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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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