He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
Francis Bacon
Related The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that... So, what next!?... DEYTH BANGER PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the
celibate amongst the inferior states o... ROBERT BOYLE I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... TANA FRENCH Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto h... BIBLE I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a ho... MARK RYLANCE A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. B. R. AMBEDKAR . . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters
amongst men of the world. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the ... BIBLE I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. It's a great story for him that he has matured and been able to play the whole season. He doesn't wa... GRANT LAMAN Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the ... JOHN GAY Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the
shearers--three-man songmen all, and very good on... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man kind of dictates the rules about how he is to be treated, and for 30 years, people do what he ... JOYCE MAYNARD When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself... GERRIT SMITH Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE The best and the only way to be rated, ranked and respected really amongst the enlightened few is to... ANUJ SOMANY I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS A person's physical being could be destroyed partially or completely but the just and humane cause h... CHANDRABABU V.S. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Amongst good men two men suffice. GEORGE HERBERT The strongest amongst you, is not the one who defeats his opponents in a fight but he who can contro... PROPHET MUHAMMED However great the task may be, the outcome will be greater. JASON T. SURGAUX The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? / It is neither ... BIBLE But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of
his own writings before his death... FRANCIS BACON What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contrac... CESARE BECCARIA The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be... EUGENE KENNEDY The church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public HANS KONZELMANN He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to inven... ALEXANDER POPE Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ... GERMANY KENT A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836 It is further objected that he hath left to us no ... JOHN TILLOTSON Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that
repeateth a matter separateth very frie... BIBLE His whole game has progressed. It probably would be unfair to Emmanuel to say that it's one thing or... AL GROH For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have
abundance: but from him that hath n... BIBLE I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I... BOBBY W. MILLER I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows. EVITA PERON I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows. EVITA PERóN The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left. R.J. SCOTT The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Put your mind to it and you will do it. This is how the impossible become possible SOTONYE ANGA the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparab... GEORGE SARTON The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. BIBLE Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Amongst Indian celebrities, Shah Rukh is a great one to interview. He's a brilliant T.V. anchor,... CYRUS BROACHA I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE There is more to life than you know SOTONYE ANGA I think there is great interest amongst the younger people in this music. I think that there is a lo... DAVE HOLLAND If he is a Rehnquist, that would not be a cause for exultation in my book, but it would not be a cau... CHUCK SCHUMER Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless an... HENRY VAUGHAN Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless an... HENRY VAUGHAN Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Alb... ALYSON NOEL For he that once is good, is ever great. BEN JONSON Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who ... STANLEY HAUERWAS Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not sha... BIBLE He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but super human, an angels scent, so i... PATRICK SüSKIND I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside ... CRAIG GROESCHEL Amongst the sons of men how few are known
Who dare be just to merit not their own. CHARLES CHURCHILL Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that fo... MARK TWAIN That win in the 400 was huge for us. He is supposed to be a distance guy, but he has a lot of range.... DAVE SELLON Ask God to use you. Ask Him to show you how you can be a blessing everywhere you go. Keep honoring H... GERMANY KENT Be the sunshine amongst a sky full of clouds. SCOTTIE SOMERS When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impr... MARGERY ALLINGHAM When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more im... MARGERY ALLINGHAM When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more im... MARGERY ALLINGHAM When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more im... MARGERY ALLINGHAM He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent... FRANCIS BACON
More Francis Bacon
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. FRANCIS BACON If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. FRANCIS BACON There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr... FRANCIS BACON Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity... FRANCIS BACON In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. FRANCIS BACON Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv... FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him... FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d... FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider... FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. FRANCIS BACON Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit... FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions. FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion dot... FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth. FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co... FRANCIS BACON A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ... FRANCIS BACON A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed. FRANCIS BACON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far... FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught,... FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her. FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the... FRANCIS BACON Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for... FRANCIS BACON Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress. FRANCIS BACON For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.] FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up. FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of
the cause frustrates the effect. FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itsel... FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. FRANCIS BACON So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
[Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg... FRANCIS BACON States are great engines moving slowly. FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body;... FRANCIS BACON Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli... FRANCIS BACON The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused m... FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit... FRANCIS BACON Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;... FRANCIS BACON Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. FRANCIS BACON If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ... FRANCIS BACON No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being. FRANCIS BACON Money makes a good servant, but a bad master. FRANCIS BACON Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. FRANCIS BACON Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must... FRANCIS BACON To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b... FRANCIS BACON Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. FRANCIS BACON Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend... FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. FRANCIS BACON For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,... FRANCIS BACON Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. FRANCIS BACON All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from... FRANCIS BACON It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ... FRANCIS BACON There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy... FRANCIS BACON Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. FRANCIS BACON Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f... FRANCIS BACON Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil... FRANCIS BACON He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent... FRANCIS BACON Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de... FRANCIS BACON Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv... FRANCIS BACON Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. FRANCIS BACON I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. FRANCIS BACON It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the... FRANCIS BACON Silence is the virtue of fools. FRANCIS BACON Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ... FRANCIS BACON People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and ... FRANCIS BACON Science is but an image of the truth. FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and co... FRANCIS BACON Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. FRANCIS BACON Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. FRANCIS BACON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. FRANCIS BACON Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed... FRANCIS BACON The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou... FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou... FRANCIS BACON I hold every man a debtor to his profession. FRANCIS BACON He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ... FRANCIS BACON Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. FRANCIS BACON All colors will agree in the dark. FRANCIS BACON Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far... FRANCIS BACON It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow... FRANCIS BACON It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. FRANCIS BACON In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi... FRANCIS BACON Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,... FRANCIS BACON We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. FRANCIS BACON Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. FRANCIS BACON Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre... FRANCIS BACON The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. FRANCIS BACON Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. FRANCIS BACON The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. FRANCIS BACON The best armor is to keep out of gunshot. FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp... FRANCIS BACON Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. FRANCIS BACON Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. FRANCIS BACON Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. FRANCIS BACON What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. FRANCIS BACON It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in... FRANCIS BACON Truth is a naked and open daylight FRANCIS BACON Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit... FRANCIS BACON There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall... FRANCIS BACON Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, o... FRANCIS BACON If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. FRANCIS BACON Riches are for spending. FRANCIS BACON For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly a... FRANCIS BACON None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. FRANCIS BACON God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave... FRANCIS BACON It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save tha... FRANCIS BACON As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the b... FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ... FRANCIS BACON Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. FRANCIS BACON Opportunity makes a thief. FRANCIS BACON Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners an... FRANCIS BACON The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. FRANCIS BACON Nature is commanded by obeying her. FRANCIS BACON This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover , what nature... FRANCIS BACON The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. FRANCIS BACON Mysteries are due to secrecy. FRANCIS BACON Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially n... FRANCIS BACON In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to b... FRANCIS BACON Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. FRANCIS BACON Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. FRANCIS BACON There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy... FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit... FRANCIS BACON Cure the disease and kill the patient. FRANCIS BACON Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use. FRANCIS BACON They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea. FRANCIS BACON The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and t... FRANCIS BACON Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. FRANCIS BACON A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. FRANCIS BACON Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more... FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; ... FRANCIS BACON God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. FRANCIS BACON If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his... FRANCIS BACON God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. FRANCIS BACON Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet ... FRANCIS BACON Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. FRANCIS BACON The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honore... FRANCIS BACON Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. FRANCIS BACON It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and... FRANCIS BACON Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra... FRANCIS BACON For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next age... FRANCIS BACON A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. FRANCIS BACON Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. FRANCIS BACON Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. FRANCIS BACON I would live to study, and not study to live. FRANCIS BACON Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than conf... FRANCIS BACON For knowledge itself is power. FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous. FRANCIS BACON Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. FRANCIS BACON The place of justice is a hallowed place. FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. FRANCIS BACON Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased... FRANCIS BACON It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. FRANCIS BACON Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. FRANCIS BACON Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. FRANCIS BACON He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great ent... FRANCIS BACON Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. FRANCIS BACON Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, ... FRANCIS BACON Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize... FRANCIS BACON Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. FRANCIS BACON A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. FRANCIS BACON A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. FRANCIS BACON Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. FRANCIS BACON In charity there is no excess. FRANCIS BACON That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactl... FRANCIS BACON If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient i... FRANCIS BACON 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. FRANCIS BACON It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringe... FRANCIS BACON 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... FRANCIS BACON Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor. FRANCIS BACON 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,... FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. FRANCIS BACON They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. FRANCIS BACON 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... FRANCIS BACON God's first creature, which was light. FRANCIS BACON Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. FRANCIS BACON 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. FRANCIS BACON A good conscience is a continual feast. FRANCIS BACON The wisdom of our ancestors. FRANCIS BACON Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. FRANCIS BACON Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed op... FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed and digested. FRANCIS BACON Boldness is a child of ignorance. FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;
Adversity is the blessing of the New. FRANCIS BACON All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either
upon an art, or upon a man.
- ... FRANCIS BACON The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the w... FRANCIS BACON