Francis Bacon Quotes, Wise Quotes, Heart Quotes

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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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.

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Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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All colours will agree in the dark.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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