Francis Bacon quotes - page 12

There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One's Inability to attain One's Heart's Desire-The Other Is To Have It! (Francis Bacon)
The difficulties in princes' business are many and great; but the greatest difficulty, is often in their own mind. View quote
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It is often seen that bad husbands, have very good wives; whether it be, that it raiseth the price of their husband's kindness, when it comes; or that the wives take a pride in their patience. View quote
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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity. View quote
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All colors will agree in the dark. View quote
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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. View quote
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint. View quote
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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. View quote
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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others. View quote
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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light. View quote
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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground. (Francis Bacon)
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot. View quote
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Of perfidious friends We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. View quote
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. View quote
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Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch. View quote
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Mysteries are due to secrecy. View quote
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All bravery stands on comparisons. View quote
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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many. View quote
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. View quote
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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. View quote
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. (Francis Bacon)
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings. View quote
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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly. View quote
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. View quote
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth. View quote
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