There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
FRANCIS BACONTo suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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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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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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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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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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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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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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