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!
FRANCIS BACONIf money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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 cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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