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Francis Bacon Quotes

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men  (Francis Bacon Quotes) He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is  (Francis Bacon Quotes) We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do  (Francis Bacon Quotes) When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business  (Francis Bacon Quotes) I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death  (Francis Bacon Quotes) I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall  (Francis Bacon Quotes) If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world  (Francis Bacon Quotes) If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties  (Francis Bacon Quotes) In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior  (Francis Bacon Quotes) People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors  (Francis Bacon Quotes) There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool  (Francis Bacon Quotes) There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self  (Francis Bacon Quotes) There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying  (Francis Bacon Quotes) It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgment  (Francis Bacon Quotes) The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go  (Francis Bacon Quotes) If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted  (Francis Bacon Quotes) For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love  (Francis Bacon Quotes) We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends  (Francis Bacon Quotes) There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man’s knowledge  (Francis Bacon Quotes) I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province  (Francis Bacon Quotes) The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man’s life  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion  (Francis Bacon Quotes)
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