A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
FRANCIS BACONI will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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