Francis Bacon Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Vices Quotes

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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Whatever you can, count.

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

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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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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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

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