| 192 Famous Quotes by Francis Bacon
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“Come home to men's business and bosoms.”
Business Quotes Source: Essays (dedication of edition 9)
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“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an
exact man.”
Reading Quotes Source: Essays--Of Studies
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“The folly of one man is the fortune of another.”
Folly Quotes Source: Of Fortune
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“But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of
his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely
anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to
go along with him.
- Francis Bacon,”
Publishing Quotes Source: An Advertisement Touching a Holy War--Epistle Dedicatory
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“But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books,
exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual
renovation.”
Books Quotes Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. I, Advantages of Learning)
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“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed and digested.”
Books Quotes Source: Essay--Of Studies
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“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.”
Books Quotes Source: Proposition touching Amendment of Laws
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“The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how
otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?
[Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot
capita in unum conspirare possint?]”
Public Quotes Source: 9, Laus, Existimatio
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“States are great engines moving slowly.”
Government Quotes Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. II)
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“So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
[Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius
inflexum sit.]”
Government Quotes Source: De Sapientia Veterum (6, Pan, sive Natura)
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“Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than
plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things,
integrity is their portion and proper virtue.”
Judges Quotes Source: Essays--Of Judicature
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“Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient
saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or
imposture, are preserved and reposed.”
Libraries Quotes Source: Libraries
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“The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.”
Weakness Quotes Source: On Seditions, quoted as a Spanish proverb
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“I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as
men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought
they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a
help and ornament thereunto.”
Occupations Quotes Source: Maxims of the Law (preface)
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“I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud
and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a
mind.”
Mind Quotes Source: Essays--Of Atheism
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“For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due
reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.”
Cleanliness Quotes Source: Advancement of Learning
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“That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in
his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath
somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she
is the farther off."”
Fortune Quotes Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. II)
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“Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see
Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.”
Fortune Quotes Source: Essays--Of Fortune
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“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”
Fortune Quotes Source: Essays--Of Fortune
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“We see spiders, flies or ants entombed and preserved forever in
amber, a more than royal tomb.”
Flies Quotes Source: Historia Vitoe et Mortis
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“It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree
of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!”
Flies Quotes Source: Of Vain Glory, attributed to Aesop but found in "Fables" of Laurentius Abstemius
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“We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in
amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body
of any king.”
Flies Quotes Source: Sylvia Sylvarum (century I, experiment 100)
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“He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune;
for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue
or mischief.”
Matrimony Quotes Source: Essays--Of Marriage and Single Life
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“Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.”
Virtue Quotes Source: Essays--Of Adversity
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“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”
Virtue Quotes Source: Essays--Of Beauty
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