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Francis Bacon
Travel, in the...
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Philosophy when superficially...
Philosophy when superficially studied excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels...
Art is man...
Art is man added to nature.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...
All colours will...
All colours will agree in the dark.
Source: Essays, 'Of Unity in Religion'
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Wives are young...
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
There is nothing...
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by...
Silence is the...
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
Beauty is like...
Beauty is like summer fruits which are easy to corrupt and cannot last.
Source: In...
A man that...
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.
Source:...
It is a...
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
Age appears best...
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to...
Write down the...
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most...
Time is the...
Time is the measure of business.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
Custom is the...
Custom is the principal magistrate of man's life.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Riches are for...
Riches are for spending.
Source: Essays, 'Of Expense'
-- Francis Bacon, (Jan 22...
Books are the...
Books are the ships which pass through the vast sea of time.
Source: In Webster's...
The monuments of...
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Source: In Webster's...
There is no...
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not...
It is not...
It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us...
Fame is like...
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and...