Francis Bacon Quotes
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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.
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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.
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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 pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
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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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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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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.
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Boldness is a child of ignorance.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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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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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
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Whatever you can, count.
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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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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.