A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
FRANCIS BACONThere are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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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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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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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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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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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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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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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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