Francis Bacon Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Support Quotes

The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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Time is the greatest innovator.

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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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