Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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