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 BACONThere Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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