Francis Bacon Quotes
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
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No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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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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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'
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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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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.
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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this - that men despair and think things impossible.
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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.