Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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