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Francis Bacon, Sr. Quotes

«In charity there is no excess.»
«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...»
«Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.»
«I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.»
«It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.»
«Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.»
«It is impossible to love and to be wise.»
«Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god»
«Knowledge itself is power»
«I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.»

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