Francis Bacon Quotes, Mind Quotes, Firsts Quotes

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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

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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

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The worst men often give the best advice.

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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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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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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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

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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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