To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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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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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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