Francis Bacon Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Loss Quotes

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

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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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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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