Money is a great servant but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACONWhosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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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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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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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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