Knowledge itself is power.
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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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