People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.


Francis Bacon

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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,...
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.
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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.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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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.
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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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