Francis Bacon Quotes, Reality Quotes, Matter Quotes

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

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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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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

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By indignities men come to dignities.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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Praise is the reflection of virtue.

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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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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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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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