Francis Bacon Quotes, Love Quotes, Men Quotes

There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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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.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

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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.

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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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By far the best proof is experience.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

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