Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
Francis Quarles
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[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 All beliefs are bald ideas. FRANCIS PICABIA Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli... FRANCIS BACON Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. FRANCIS KEPPEL Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have b... FRANCIS ATTERBURY They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ... FRANCIS ATTERBURY The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from when... FRANCIS ATTERBURY 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 Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God. FRANCIS CHAN 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 Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them. DICK FRANCIS 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 The essence of a man is found in his faults. FRANCIS PICABIA For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own. FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per... FRANCIS THOMPSON Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit... FRANCIS PICABIA A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. FRANCIS PICABIA Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. FRANCIS PICABIA 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