A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
FRANCIS BACONChampagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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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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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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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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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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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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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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