Wells Quotes - Page 60
There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor”, p.332
Song: Werewolf, Album: The Idler Wheel..., 2012
So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.
Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.177, Random House
What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else
Epictetus, Nicholas P. White (1983). “The Handbook (The Encheiridion)”, p.16, Hackett Publishing
Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.192, Pan Macmillan
Daniel H. Pink (2012). “To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others”, p.31, Penguin