Francis Bacon Quotes, Plato Quotes, Imagination Quotes

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

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