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 BACONBegin 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 BACONFor friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
FRANCIS BACONThere Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
FRANCIS BACONWhosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACONA wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACONGreat boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
FRANCIS BACONKnowledge itself is power.
FRANCIS BACONIf 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.
FRANCIS BACONThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACONIf money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
FRANCIS BACONWrite down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACONThe remedy is worse than the disease.
FRANCIS BACONIf we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
FRANCIS BACONTo suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
FRANCIS BACONThe monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
FRANCIS BACONIn taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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