Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes 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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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient i...
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council thoug...
FRANCIS BACON
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the ...
FRANCIS BACON
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images...
FRANCIS BACON
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ...
FRANCIS BACON
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
FRANCIS BACON
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
FRANCIS BACON
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
FRANCIS BACON
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringe...
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this u...
FRANCIS BACON
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
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He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with b...
FRANCIS BACON
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself,...
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
FRANCIS BACON
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingraine...
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God's first creature, which was light.
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
FRANCIS BACON
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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A good conscience is a continual feast.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
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Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed op...
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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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Boldness is a child of ignorance.
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.
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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
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The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the w...
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