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 BACONIf money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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 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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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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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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