Francis Bacon Quotes
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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
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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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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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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.
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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.
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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
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Let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is, further and further to discover truth.
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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
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For the inquisition of Final Causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to God produces nothing.
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It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.
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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.