Sir Francis Bacon

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Sir Francis Bacon By far the best proof is experience. Sir Francis Bacon Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Sir Francis BaconChoose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Sir Francis BaconDeath is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. Sir Francis BaconDiscretion in speech is more than eloquence. Sir Francis BaconHe of whom many are afraid ought to fear many. Sir Francis BaconHope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Sir Francis BaconI have taken all knowledge to be my province. Sir Francis BaconIf 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. Sir Francis BaconIn taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. Sir Francis Bacon Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. Sir Francis BaconPraise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. Sir Francis BaconRead not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Sir Francis Bacon Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Sir Francis BaconReading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Sir Francis Bacon Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. Sir 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. Sir Francis BaconSilence is the virtue of fools. Sir Francis Bacon Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Sir Francis Bacon The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. Sir Francis BaconThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Sir Francis BaconThere is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Beauty" 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. Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death"Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Sir Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Building, 1623Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est) Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacr?. De H?resibus. (1597)In charity there is no excess. Sir Francis Bacon, Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625) Knowledge is power. Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597

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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Francis Bacon

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Acorns were good until bread was found.
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
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By indignities men come to dignities.
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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.
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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