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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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. – Francis Bacon

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. – Francis Bacon

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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. – Orison Swett Marden

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. – Homer

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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. – Oprah Winfrey

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