Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
FRANCIS BACONThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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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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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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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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