Francis Bacon Quotes, Voice Quotes, Weight Quotes

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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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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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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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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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

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

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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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In charity there is no excess.

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