Francis Bacon Quotes, Kings Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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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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If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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Time is the author of authors.

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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

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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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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

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