That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
Francis Hutcheson
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That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers
FRANCIS HUTCHESON That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the
universal good; and when one's acting i...
FRANCIS HUTCHESON
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action
MADAME DE STAEL
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAEL
Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, ...
C.S. LEWIS
Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, t...
C.S. LEWIS Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ...
ROBERT ADAMSON
All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind ...
ARISTOTLE
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
WILLIAM JAMES
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
WILLIAM JAMES
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
GANDHI
Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
UNKNOWN
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
WILLIAM SAROYAN
Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one en...
LUDWIG VON MISES Gratitude is the king that procures abundance even when lack abound.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
JAMES MONROE
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of ri...
JEREMY BENTHAM
The belief that becomes truth for me - is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best...
ANDRE GIDE
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
JEREMY BENTHAM
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation
JEREMY BENTHAM The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
BOVEE
Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is...
JOSEF PIEPER Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON
The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it...
JOHANN VON GOETHE You cannot become the best dancer by sitting and wishing. Take action, start dancing
SOTONYE ANGA The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
AULIQ-ICE Francis is our best freshman. We've been waiting for him to come through like this.
DAVE TALBOTT
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
The greatest action is the grace to define sacred-self.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself
JANE AUSTEN
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Assured that LIFE in shape is round, ball-like as it procures its sound, went lost, but then was fou...
YTHAM REIJAN ROSELITTLE COOGEIL
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, h...
JOHN STUART MILL
Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.
NALINI SINGH
To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence
SYDNEY SMITH
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever...
SMILEY BLANTON The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever...
DR. SMILEY BLANTON
A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness o...
JAMES MADISON
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The greatest happiness of the greatest number.
[Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numer...
CESARE DI BONESANA BECCARIA The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
ESTHER HICKS
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
BUDDHA
Honesty is the best policy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For every ACTION in life there is a RE Action and for every NO ACTION there is NO ATTRACTION to LOVE...
MINA TADROS
The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.
SUN TZU If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN That was the result of a lot of work the last three weeks, in which (Francis) analyzed what had been...
CLINT HURDLE
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
LINUS PAULING
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
DR. LINUS PAULING
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants su...
PAUL J. MEYER
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''...
PAUL J. MEYER
We should seek the greatest value of our action.
STEPHEN HAWKING
The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energi...
WALTER ANNENBERG Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my
lips to pronounce this sacred truth--...
CESARE DI BONESANA BECCARIA It seems to me that happiness is best bought in retail.
ASCETIC ANGEL
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of ...
PLATO
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
MORRIS L. ERNST
Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE
The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is,...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the m...
L. SCHEFER
He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.
CHINESE PROVERBS
We must be doing something to be happy.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
UNKNOWN
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO
XinWey’s Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest ...
BRANDON SANDERSON The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest...
ATISA The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived
GEORGE JAMES
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
LINUS PAULING
Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminal...
OTTO WEININGER
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
MARK TWAIN
Let him not eat any dainty food which he does not offer to his guest, the hospitable reception of gu...
GURU NANAK
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Many people believe that happiness is the result of external situations in life. Unfortunately, that...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
JOSEPH ROUX I think that Francis Marion did the same.
GARY HALL
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
WALT WHITMAN
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women
WALT WHITMAN
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall...
FRANCIS BACON There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall...
SIR FRANCIS BACON There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, real...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Happiness is that which occurs when you know what sadness is, and that you possess neither it nor th...
DAVID BENEDICT ZUMBO Happiness is that which occurs when you know what sadness is, and that you possess neither it nor th...
DAVID B ZUMBO
When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses
DR. JOYCE BROTHERS Your greatest competitor is your best work.
LORRIN L. LEE
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TODD HUTCHESON I've had no problems since then. Dad and me, we're both living proof.
ALAN HUTCHESON I had no idea. It wasn't on my radar screen.
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DOUG HUTCHESON We want to find out what we can do. As individuals, as a community, as an area.
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FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
FRANCIS It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
FRANCIS Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
FRANCIS
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
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The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I
Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
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Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS
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.
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Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS
Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS
We all have the duty to do good.
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In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
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When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
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The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON
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FRANCIS COLLINS We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
FRANCIS MAUDE I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN
I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
FRANCIS CHAN
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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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 Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN
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
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA
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FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA
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
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN
There is no expeditious road
To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
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
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES
God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA
To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS
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
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
FRANCIS PICABIA Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha...
QUARLES FRANCIS
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
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
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, a...
FRANCIS QUARLES
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
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FRANCIS BACON
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma...
FRANCIS LOCKIER
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ...
CLARENCE FRANCIS
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
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS
The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
FRANCIS QUARLES
If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
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
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
FRANCIS PICABIA
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatr...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
FRANCIS PICABIA
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES
The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
FRANCIS QUARLES
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
FRANCIS QUARLES
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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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
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortun...
FRANCIS QUARLES
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
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES
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
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
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