Money is a great servant but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACONFor friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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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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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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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 we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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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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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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