Francis Bacon Quotes, Matter Quotes

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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Money is a great servant but a bad master.

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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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