Francis Bacon Quotes, Men Quotes, Doubt Quotes

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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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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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

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

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

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