Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACONBy far the best proof is experience.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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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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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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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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