Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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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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