Francis Bacon Quotes, Men Quotes, Garden Quotes

God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear.

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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

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In all superstition wise men follow fools.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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By indignities men come to dignities.

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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

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

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