A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
FRANCIS BACONMoney is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
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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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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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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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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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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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