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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.


Sir Francis Bacon

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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
PYTHAGORAS Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ...
GERMANY KENT The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a ho...
MARK RYLANCE Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
DAVID LYNCH Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
SOTONYE ANGA I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but al...
JOHN HEYWOOD I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all...
BILL HIRST Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552 As long as I see any thi...
DAVID BRAINERD Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, f...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for G...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN For a long time, we were the only theater in town. And it may be the only theater in Nyack again.
ELAINE VOGEL I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many...
DAVID LYNCH Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pre...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life
BILLY GRAHAM Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people l...
SIMON RATTLE It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l...
LAURE96 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me tha...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that ...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that...
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE It is impossible to love and to be wise.
FRANCIS BACON SR. shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
ANN PATCHETT We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this re...
ALDO LEOPOLD He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL you weren't mine to begin with.
IAIN S. THOMAS Everything was a prayer to St. Francis, his whole life was a prayer. This is what we strive for, too...
COSETTE SCHAAF No matter how dysfunctional your background, how broke or broken you are, where you are today, or wh...
GERMANY KENT Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Alb...
ALYSON NOEL I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a ...
DAMIEN HIRST The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provid...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart...
GERMANY KENT Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We ha...
SERAPHIM ROSE I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when t...
JOHN DONNE Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
UNKNOWN HISTORY STUDENT Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used t...
DANNY MEYER Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
T. B. JOSHUA Entrepreneurship is a dangerous terrain reserved only for dangerous people,because it could lead to ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) In life, we pursue and work hard for the respect we feel an honorary title carries. Will it be etche...
SCOTTIE SOMERS what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754 Th...
WILLIAM LAW We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when ...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak.
INDONESIA123 This got me thinking - if there are things inside us too tiny to see, might there be things outside ...
RENE DENFELD The human race has come such a long way in such a short time and every day I wake I feel blessed tha...
TERRY LANDER More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Some revelations have been reserved for the last days for God to accomplish His original plan.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream!
I turn from you, and li...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Taking the journey towards ourselves is the hardest journey we have to make in this life and yet the...
MIMI NOVIC My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone shoudl be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to b...
BOOK OF JAMES And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us i...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion.
SARAH NOFFKE remember an old mans ballsack is like christmas tree ornaments, they are only there for decoration.
NEGRO FRIJOLES Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in contr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL One day, and it may be long off, but one day there will be bacon again. It might be mouse bacon, but...
FRANK TAYELL How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're ...
KATIE MCGARRY I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go...
SAINT IGNATIUS The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that...
JOHN ORTBERG My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
PETER O'TOOLE Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in ...
JOHN DONNE To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON I believe the favor of God on my life is not for me to keep to myself and become proud of, but to be...
LUKE BENWARD Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England The one supreme, unchangeable rule of love, which is a law t...
WILLIAM LAW The physics of gravity was not reserved only for large celestial objects to efficiently exert.
GAYENDRA ABEYWARDANE Now, Sir, it is impossible for serious men, to whom God has given the divine gift of reason, and who...
THOMAS PAINE For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE Love is among the things that comes once in life and doesn't go away till you take your last breath....
PHILIP T. M. I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. Concluding a short series on prayer: He that seeks God in everything is sure to find God in everyt...
WILLIAM LAW Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can af...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
P.G. WODEHOUSE Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coc...
DRIES VAN NOTEN For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA To forget is Gods gift to man,to forgive is mans gift to God.
KOWSALAPATHY You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a d...
PETER DOIG Wise sir, do not grieve. It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For ev...
BEOWULF Francis is our best freshman. We've been waiting for him to come through like this.
DAVE TALBOTT His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo o...
ANAïS NIN One hundred years ago, airline flight was reserved for only a few brave souls. Everyone flies (on pl...
GREGORY OLSEN Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at...
RAVI ZACHARIAS Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650 If our faith is not...
DOUGLAS RHYMES If we were to bring creativity down to earth, it would not have to be reserved for exceptional indiv...
THOMAS MOORE Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a...
GERMANY KENT Keeping what you have is hard like searching for what you've lost.
AULIQ ICE You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C. Too often we forget to give God the immeasurable load, we carry a load of weight heavy for our being...
IRENE GOODWILL The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...
CLIVE BARKER The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us...
ANTHONY LICCIONE Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionall...
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Knowledge is power.
SIR FRANCIS BACON In charity there is no excess.
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SIR FRANCIS BACON Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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SIR FRANCIS BACON God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave...
SIR FRANCIS BACON A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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SIR FRANCIS BACON There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom
SIR FRANCIS BACON A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ab...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
SIR FRANCIS BACON A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
SIR FRANCIS BACON He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
SIR FRANCIS BACON The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
(To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
SIR FRANCIS BACON Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
SIR FRANCIS BACON In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
SIR FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
SIR FRANCIS BACON I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
SIR FRANCIS BACON He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
SIR FRANCIS BACON By far the best proof is experience.
SIR FRANCIS BACON A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)
SIR FRANCIS BACON Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, exce...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...
SIR FRANCIS BACON There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
SIR FRANCIS BACON They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
SIR FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Silence is the virtue of fools.
SIR 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...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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FRANCIS BACON Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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FRANCIS BACON Truth is a naked and open daylight
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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