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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.

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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

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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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Friends are thieves of time.

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

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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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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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