Francis Bacon Quotes
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
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To know truly is to know by causes.
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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
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It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that 'The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.'
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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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Always let losers have their words.