Quote by Francis Bacon
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. - Francis Bacon

The great end of life is not knowledge but action. – Francis Bacon

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He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both. – Francis Bacon

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. – Francis Bacon

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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Stephen Leacock

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot

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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. – Christopher Hitchens

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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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