Francis Bacon Quotes, Genius Quotes, Spirit Quotes

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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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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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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Knowledge is power.

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The place of justice is a hallowed place.

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All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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

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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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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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