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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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Come home to men's business and bosoms.
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Virtue is like precious odors -- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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Essays (Francis Bacon) |
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It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.
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Essays (Francis Bacon) |
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Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
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Essays (Francis Bacon) |
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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Essays (Francis Bacon) |
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
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Essays (Francis Bacon) |
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The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.n...
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Essays (Francis Bacon) |
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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
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Essays (Francis Bacon) |
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Francis Bacon |
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Lucid intervals and happy pauses.
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Francis Bacon |
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Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
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Francis Bacon |
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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
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Francis Bacon |
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Time, which is the author of authors.
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Francis Bacon |
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The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
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Francis Bacon |
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Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
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Francis Bacon |
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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Francis Bacon |
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States as great engines move slowly.
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Francis Bacon |
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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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Francis Bacon |
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Silence is the virtue of a fool.
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Francis Bacon |
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But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.
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Francis Bacon |
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Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.
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Francis Bacon |
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Francis Bacon |
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Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
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Francis Bacon |
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Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
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Francis Bacon |
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The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.
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Francis Bacon |
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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
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Francis Bacon |
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What then remains but that we still should cry Not to be born, or, being born, to die?
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Francis Bacon |
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Francis Bacon |