There it is. I don't believe in anything, but I'm always glad to wake up in the morning. It doesn't depress me. I'm never depressed. My basic nervous system is filled with this optimism. It's mad, I know, because it's optimism about nothing. I think of life as meaningless and yet it excites me. I always think something marvelous is about to happen.

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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, 1st Lord Verulam, PC (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued the importance of natural philosophy, guided by scientific method, and...

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

—Francis Bacon

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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.