Francis Bacon quotes - page 6

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this - that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps. (Francis Bacon)
Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it. View quote
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Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. View quote
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The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so. View quote
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Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner. View quote
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Lucid intervals and happy pauses. View quote
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My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads. View quote
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. View quote
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. View quote
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. View quote
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself. (Francis Bacon)
Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick. View quote
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(Do not wonder, if the common people speak more truly than those of high rank; for they speak with more safety.) View quote
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He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own. View quote
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...it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives... View quote
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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a mans mind ... turn upon the poles of truth. View quote
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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt. View quote
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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. View quote
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My essays . . . come home, to men's business, and bosoms. View quote
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Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep morals, grave logic And rhetoric, able to contend. View quote
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People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business. (Francis Bacon)
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake... View quote
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Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest. View quote
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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry A young man not yet, an elder man not at all. View quote
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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. View quote
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