| 192 Famous Quotes by Francis Bacon
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“Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for
settled business.”
Youth Quotes Source: Of Youth and Age
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“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”
Anger Quotes Source: Certain Apophthegms of Lord Bacon (no. IV)
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“Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”
Money Quotes Source: Of Sedition
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“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too
little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the
full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”
Age Quotes Source: Essay XLII--Of Youth and Age
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“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the
elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country
before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school,
and not to travel.”
Traveling Quotes Source: Of Travel
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“For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and
aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the
savage beast.”
Society Quotes Source: Essays--Civil and Moral--Of Friendship
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“Man was formed for society.”
Society Quotes Source: Essays--Civil and Moral--Of Friendship
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“The wisdom of our ancestors.”
Ancestry Quotes Source: (according to Lord Brougham), also attributed to Edmund Burke "Observations on a Late Publication on
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“If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should
not have great account to render at my death.”
Service Quotes Source: Life and Times of Francis the First (vol. I, p. 46, of ed. 2)
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“There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion doth.”
Religion Quotes Source: Essays--Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature
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“The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions.”
Religion Quotes Source: Of Vicissitude of Things
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“Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.]”
Religion Quotes Source: Of Vicissitude of Things
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“Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil
times; and which have much veneratoin, but no rest.”
Royalty Quotes Source: Essays--Of Empire
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“A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds
hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.”
Medicine Quotes Source: Essays--Of Regimen of Health
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“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
Disease Quotes Source: Of Seditions
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“Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]”
Vice Quotes Source: Humble Submission and Supplication to the Lords of Parliament
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“Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him,
and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of
his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come
to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was
never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to
Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."”
Faith Quotes Source: Essays--Of Boldness
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“Acorns were good till bread was found.”
Eating Quotes Source: Colours of Good and Evil (6), quoted from Juvenal's "Satires" (XIV, 181)
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“There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the
cat in the pan.”
Deceit Quotes Source: Essays--Of Cunning
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“Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use
be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.”
Architecture Quotes Source: Essays--Of Building
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“The wisdom of our ancestors.”
Wisdom Quotes Source: (according to Lord Brougham), also attributed to Edmund Burke "Observations on a Late Publication on
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“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in
philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”
Philosophy Quotes Source: Essays--Atheism
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“The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as
pure as before.”
Sun Quotes Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. II)
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“(He) put that which was most material in the postscript.”
Post Quotes Source: Essays (93), (Arber's ed.)
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“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.”
Study Quotes Source: Essays--Of Studies
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