There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
FRANCIS BACONWrite down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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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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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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