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Francis Bacon
The world's a...
The world's a bubble; and the life of man,
Less than a span.
Source: The...
But men must...
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be...
The fortune which...
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Source: In
All rising to...
All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
Source: Of Great Place
--...
The best armor...
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
Source: In
What then remains,...
What then remains, but that we still should cry,
Not to be born, or being born, to die?
All good moral...
All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion.
Source: The Advancement...
God's first creature,...
God's first creature, which was light.
Source: New Atlantis, sct. 14, 1627.
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When he wrote...
When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a...
For knowledge itself...
For knowledge itself is power.
Source: Religious Meditations, `Of Heresies'
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Who then to...
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
For all knowledge...
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in...
For it is...
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions...
If we do...
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
Source: Speech for...
Fortunes . ....
Fortunes . . . come tumbling into some men's laps.
Source: The Advancement of...
Universities incline wits...
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
Source: Valerius Terminus...
Lucid intervals and...
Lucid intervals and happy pauses.
Source: The History of the Reign of King Henry...
Choose the life...
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
The poets did...
The poets did well to conjoin Music And Medicine in Apollo: because the office of medicine is but to tune this curious...
Just as it...
Just as it is always said of slander that something always sticks when people boldly slander, so it might be said of...