The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers zeros, is the decay of the whole age.Francis Bacon
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Francis Bacon
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...
Francis Bacon
If we begin with certainties, we will end in doubt. But if we begin with doubts and bear them patiently, we may end in certainty.
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A healthy body is the guestchamber of the soul, a sick, its prison.
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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
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