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Life Quotes by Francis Bacon
- A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
- Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
- But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
- Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
- Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
- The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
- Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of…
- Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life...
- 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…
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- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle