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Francis Bacon Quotes

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Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied  (Francis Bacon Quotes) That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain  (Francis Bacon Quotes) To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings  (Francis Bacon Quotes) 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 Quotes) Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit  (Francis Bacon Quotes) All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts  (Francis Bacon Quotes) A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people’s plate  (Francis Bacon Quotes) This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much  (Francis Bacon Quotes) People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Studies teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation  (Francis Bacon Quotes) I know not how, but martial men are given to love. I think it is but as they are given to wine; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Physic is of little use to a temperate person, for a man’s own observation on what he finds does him good, and what hurts him is the best physic to preserve health  (Francis Bacon Quotes) The vine produces more grapes when it is young, but better grapes for wine when it is old, because its juices are more perfectly concocted  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Logic differeth from rhetoric as the fist from the palm; the one close, the other at large  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Certainly, if a man will but keep of an even hand, his ordinary expenses ought to be but to the half of his receipts; and if he thinks to wax rich, but to the third part  (Francis Bacon Quotes) It had been hard to have put more truth and untruth together in a few words than in that speech, whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a God  (Francis Bacon Quotes) If a man can play the true logician, and have judgment as well as invention, he may do great matters  (Francis Bacon Quotes) In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Books are true friends that will never flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself, and you shall need no other comfort  (Francis Bacon Quotes) There is nothing that makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and, therefore, men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions to smother  (Francis Bacon Quotes) He that travels into a country before he has some entrance into the language, goeth to school and not to travel  (Francis Bacon Quotes) An angry man who suppresses his passions thinks worse than he speaks; and an angry man that will chide speaks worse than he thinks  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Great effects come of industry and perseverance: for audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds  (Francis Bacon Quotes) Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both  (Francis Bacon Quotes)
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