Francis Bacon Quotes, Witty Quotes, Integrity Quotes

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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

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

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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Innovations, which are the births of time.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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