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 BACONThe remedy is worse than the disease.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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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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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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