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 BACONHe that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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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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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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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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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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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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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have 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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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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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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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