Francis Bacon Quotes
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Come home to men's business and bosoms.
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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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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry. A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
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For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.
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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.
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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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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.
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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.
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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, 'Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone'.
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.