Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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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 exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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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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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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