Francis Bacon quotes - page 15

Consistency is the foundation of virtue. (Francis Bacon)
Seek not proud wealth but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and love contentedly. View quote
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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God. View quote
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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ... Revenge triumphs over death love slights it honor aspireth to it grief flieth to it. View quote
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Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. View quote
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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active. View quote
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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet. View quote
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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. View quote
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The surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. View quote
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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first because one cannot hold out that proportion. View quote
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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed. (Francis Bacon)
The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth. View quote
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Praise is the reflection of virtue. View quote
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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry. View quote
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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections What a man had rather were true he more readily believes. View quote
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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not. View quote
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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer. View quote
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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. View quote
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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. View quote
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A king is one who has few things to desire and many things to fear. View quote
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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. (Francis Bacon)
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. View quote
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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God. View quote
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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. View quote
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Further, it will not be amiss to distinguish the three kinds and, as it were, grades of ambition in mankind. View quote
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