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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.


Francis Bacon Sr.

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FRANCIS BACON SR. Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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FRANCIS BACON SR. Of great riches there is no real use, except in the distribution; the rest is but conceit
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FRANCIS BACON SR. Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half
FRANCIS BACON SR. It is impossible to love and to be wise.
FRANCIS BACON SR. The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god
FRANCIS BACON SR. Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man
FRANCIS BACON SR. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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FRANCIS BACON SR. Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
FRANCIS BACON SR. The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
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FRANCIS BACON SR. Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more...
FRANCIS BACON SR. It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that...
FRANCIS BACON SR. We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue
FRANCIS BACON SR. Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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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.
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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...
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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 ...
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