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Francis Bacon

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky which is a number of smaller stars not seen asunder but giving light together so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues or rather faculties and customs that make men fortunate
Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon
Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; 't is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort.
Francis Bacon
Great hypocrite are the real atheists.
Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon
Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
Francis Bacon
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon
Unmarried men are best friends best masters best servants but not always best subjects for they are light to run away and almost all fugitives are of that condition.
Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Francis Bacon
There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
Francis Bacon
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
Francis Bacon
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
Francis Bacon
A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.
Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon
If you can talk about it why paint it
Francis Bacon
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon
By indignities men come to dignities.
Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon
All colours will agree in the dark.
Francis Bacon
The master of superstition is the people, and in all superstition wise men follow fools, and arguments are fitted to practice in a reversed order.
Francis Bacon
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon
Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
Francis Bacon
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
Francis Bacon
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Francis Bacon
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.
Francis Bacon
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
Francis Bacon
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon
Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
Francis Bacon
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a mans self and where there is no comparison no envy.
Francis Bacon
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
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
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon
Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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No mans fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
Francis Bacon
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis Bacon
Some books should be tasted some devoured but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
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It is as natural to die as it is to be born.
Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis Bacon
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
Francis Bacon
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon
A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.
Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon
Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.
Francis Bacon
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Francis Bacon
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
Francis Bacon
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
Francis Bacon
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis Bacon
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon
It is natural to die as to be born.
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God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon
Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
Francis Bacon
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Francis Bacon
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
Francis Bacon
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon

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