There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
FRANCIS BACONSome books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Knowledge itself is power.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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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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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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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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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
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