Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACONIf 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.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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