Francis Bacon Quotes, Mother Quotes, Father Quotes

There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

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

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

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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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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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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