Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
FRANCIS BACONIf we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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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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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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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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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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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