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Francis Bacon
They are ill...
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
It is impossible...
It is impossible to love and be wise.
Source: 'Of Love'
-- Francis Bacon, (Jan...
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...
God hangs the...
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Source:
-- Francis...
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...
Princes are like...
Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no...
A healthy body...
A healthy body is the guestchamber of the soul, a sick, its prison.
Source:...
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...
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...
In taking revenge,...
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is...
What the mother...
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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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...
Certainly the best...
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless...
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...
I have often...
I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
Source: An...
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,...
A little philosophy...
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to...
A mixture of...
A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.
Source: Essays, 1, `Of Truth'
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Medicine is a...
Medicine is a science which hath been, as we have said, more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than...
I do not...
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.