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121 " There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One's Inability to attain One's Heart's Desire-The Other Is To Have It! "
― Francis Bacon
122 " 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 , The Essays
123 " I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am. "
124 " Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go. "
125 " الوقوف على الحياد في الصراع بين القوي والضعيف لايعني الحياد ولكن يعني الوقوف مع القوي... "
126 " We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake... "
127 " The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. "
― Francis Bacon , The New Organon
128 " For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. "
129 " Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. "
130 " To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none. "
131 " A Man must make his opportunity,as oft as find it "
132 " To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar "
133 " Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. "
134 " For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come. "
135 " If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. "
136 " If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world. "
137 " Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. "
138 " The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. "
139 " Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. "
140 " Books speak plain when counselors blanch. "