Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
FRANCIS BACONHope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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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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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 worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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