Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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By far the best proof is experience.
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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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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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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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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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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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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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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.
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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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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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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
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Whatever you can, count.
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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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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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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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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
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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.