| 23 Famous Quotes by Francis Bacon, Sr.
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“Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution”
Boldness Quotes |
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“Boldness is a child of ignorance”
Boldness Quotes |
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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Books Quotes |
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“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
Certainty Quotes |
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“Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.”
Discretion Quotes |
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“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
Grace Quotes |
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“Houses are built to live in and not to look on.”
Houses Quotes |
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“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.”
Integrity Quotes |
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“Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.”
Juries and judges Quotes |
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“The place of justice is a hallowed place”
Justice Quotes |
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“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.”
Losing Quotes |
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“Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom”
Opinions Quotes |
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“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.”
Opportunity Quotes |
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“Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.”
Plants Quotes |
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“Knowledge is power.”
Power Quotes |
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“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.”
Prosperity Quotes |
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“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.”
Prosperity Quotes |
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“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes”
Prosperity Quotes |
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“A prudent question is one half of wisdom.”
Questioning Quotes |
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is”
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“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
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“Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, n”
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“Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.”
Virtue Quotes |
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Francis Bacon, Sr. Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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