Francis Bacon Quotes, Reading Quotes, Writing Quotes

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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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.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

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

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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

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