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He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Men’s thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man’s life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs (Francis Bacon Quotes)
He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another’s (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner (Francis Bacon Quotes)
It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend (Francis Bacon Quotes)
If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire (Francis Bacon Quotes)
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Science is the labor and handicraft of the mind; poetry can only be considered its recreation (Francis Bacon Quotes)
New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time (Francis Bacon Quotes)
In civil business; what first? Boldness; what second, and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come in danger by it (Francis Bacon Quotes)
As in nature things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm (Francis Bacon Quotes)
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear (Francis Bacon Quotes)
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)
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)