Francis Bacon Quotes
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
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Whatever you can, count.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
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Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
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I could not be true and constant to the argument I handle, if I were not willing to go beyond others; but yet not more willing than to have others go beyond me again: which may the better appear by this, that I have propounded my opinions naked and unarmed, not seeking to preoccupate the liberty of men's judgments by confutations.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
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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.
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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.
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Beware of sudden change, in any great point of diet, and, if necessity inforce it, fit the rest to it. For it is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things, than one.
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.