| 192 Famous Quotes by Francis Bacon
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“The folly of one man is the fortune of another.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Of Fortune
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“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Of Seditions
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“He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Of Seditions
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“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity
is not without comforts and hopes.”
Adversity Quotes Source: Of Adversity
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“They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God
by his spirit, his is a base and ignoble creature.”
God Quotes Source: Essays--Of Atheism
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“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.”
Education Quotes Source: Essays--Of Studies
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“All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either
upon an art, or upon a man.
- Francis Bacon,”
Authority Quotes Source: Natural History--Century X--Touching emission of immateriate virtues, etc.
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“Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost
childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then
his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly
his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.”
Learning Quotes Source: Essays Civil and Moral--Of Vicissitude of Things
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“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an
exact man.”
Learning Quotes Source: Essays--Of Studies
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“Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the
understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert
the judgment.”
Words Quotes Source: Advancement of Learning
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“And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak.”
Speech Quotes Source: Essays--Civil and Moral--Of Discourse (no. 32)
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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.”
Speech Quotes Source: Essays--Of Discourse
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“One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through."”
Law Quotes Source: Apothegms (no. 181)
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“All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.”
Law Quotes Source: Essays on Empire
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“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itself.”
Knowledge Quotes Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. I)
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“Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of
the cause frustrates the effect.”
Knowledge Quotes Source: Aphorism III
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“Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.”
Knowledge Quotes Source: Rendering of I Cor. VIII (I)
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“For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]”
Knowledge Quotes Source: Treatise--De Hoeresiis
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“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and
old men's nurses.”
Wives Quotes Source: Of Marriage and Single Life
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“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;
Adversity is the blessing of the New.”
Blessings Quotes Source: Of Adversity
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“It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant,
perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.”
Death Quotes Source: Essays--Of Death
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“Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that
natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the
other.”
Death Quotes Source: Essays--Of Death
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“Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so
much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.”
Goodness Quotes Source: Essays--Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
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“The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb.
Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and
fears.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.”
Life Quotes Source: Life--Preface to the Translation of Certain Psalms
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“But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.”
Truth Quotes Source: Essays--Of Truth
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