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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.

Francis Bacon

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
FRANCIS BACON

Habit Life Philosophy
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
FRANCIS BACON

Deep Fear Limit One Liner Suffering
The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
FRANCIS BACON

Interest People Sex
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 BACON

Forever Hands Inspirational Live Moment Stars
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Hide Nature Overcome
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON

Deep Hard Speak Truth
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
FRANCIS BACON

Book Science
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON

Book Eat Taste
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.
FRANCIS BACON

Book Creation God Himself Religious Writing
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
FRANCIS BACON

Friendship Solitude True
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON

Age Best Burn Deep Friendship Old Philosophy Trust Wine
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
FRANCIS BACON

Bold Greatness Mad One Liner
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.
FRANCIS BACON

Company Love Philosophy Talk
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON

Moment Value Writing
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
FRANCIS BACON

Bad Food Good Hope One Liner
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACON

Deep Discover Land Philosophy Sea Think

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