Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon: They are ill...

Francis Bacon: They are ill...

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

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Francis Bacon: It is impossible...

Francis Bacon: It is impossible...

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Source: 'Of Love'
-- Francis Bacon, (Jan...

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Francis Bacon: One of the...

Francis Bacon: One of the...

One of the Seven was wont to say: `That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught, and the great brake...

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Francis Bacon: God hangs the...

Francis Bacon: God hangs the...

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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-- Francis...

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Francis Bacon: For a crowd...

Francis Bacon: For a crowd...

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no...

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Francis Bacon: Princes are like...

Francis Bacon: Princes are like...

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no...

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Francis Bacon: A healthy body...

Francis Bacon: A healthy body...

A healthy body is the guestchamber of the soul, a sick, its prison.

Source:...

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Francis Bacon: It is as...

Francis Bacon: It is as...

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the...

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Francis Bacon: Discretion of speech...

Francis Bacon: Discretion of speech...

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in...

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Francis Bacon: In taking revenge,...

Francis Bacon: In taking revenge,...

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is...

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Francis Bacon: What the mother...

Francis Bacon: What the mother...

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

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Francis Bacon: I had rather...

Francis Bacon: I had rather...

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is...

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Francis Bacon: Certainly the best...

Francis Bacon: Certainly the best...

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless...

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Francis Bacon: Revenge is a...

Francis Bacon: Revenge is a...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it...

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Francis Bacon: I have often...

Francis Bacon: I have often...

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Source: An...

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Francis Bacon: There was a...

Francis Bacon: There was a...

There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man,...

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Francis Bacon: A little philosophy...

Francis Bacon: A little philosophy...

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to...

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Francis Bacon: A mixture of...

Francis Bacon: A mixture of...

A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.

Source: Essays, 1, `Of Truth'
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Francis Bacon: Medicine is a...

Francis Bacon: Medicine is a...

Medicine is a science which hath been, as we have said, more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than...

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Francis Bacon: I do not...

Francis Bacon: I do not...

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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