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Francis Bacon  Quotes
Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

—Francis Bacon

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Wisdom
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The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.

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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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All colors will agree in the dark.

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ColorsPrejudice
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Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work, since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

—Francis Bacon

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DesireEnglish Philosopher
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority

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Authority
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It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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English PhilosopherParents
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint

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Man
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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The world ‘s a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.

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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

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The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man’s intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against...

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Deception
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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and...

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ArgumentAtheismAugustus-Caesar
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A man is but what he knoweth.

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EducationLifeQuote Of The Day
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If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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English PhilosopherMathematics
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In charity there is no excess.

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Charity
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In counsel it is good to see dangers; but in execution not to see them unless they be very great

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Execution
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Certainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

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Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use

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Strength
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There be that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play well.

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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

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Greatness
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No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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FortuneMoney
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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English Philosopher
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

—Francis Bacon

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Express
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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time....

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ArtFrancis-Bacon
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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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.

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English PhilosopherHappiness
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God ‘ s favor. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity...

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Adversity
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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Education
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves by way of amends...

—Francis Bacon

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Man
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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry? ‘A young man not yet, an elder man not at all

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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him . . . when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, ‘If the hill will not come...

—Francis Bacon

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People
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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Justice
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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch

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There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.

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Superstition
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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

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Revenge
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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English Philosopher
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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Self-Knowledge
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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without...

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BooksWords
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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands

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Accidents
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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English PhilosopherReason
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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English Philosopher
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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AlterAlteredDesignedly
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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

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Money
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Opportunity makes a thief.

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English 13Th Century ProverbsOpportunity
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