The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
FRANCIS BACONTruth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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Knowledge itself is power.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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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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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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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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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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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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