Francis Bacon Quotes, Kings Quotes, Son Quotes

That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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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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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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