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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
Francis Bacon
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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
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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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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.
Francis Bacon -
Aristotle… a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.
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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.
Francis Bacon -
I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.
Francis Bacon
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this - that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.
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In charity there is no excess.
Francis Bacon -
Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
Francis Bacon
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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.
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Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
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It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.
Francis Bacon -
Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
Francis Bacon -
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.
Francis Bacon -
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.
Francis Bacon
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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.
Francis Bacon -
Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
Francis Bacon