Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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