Francis Bacon Quotes, Cat Quotes, Men Quotes

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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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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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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

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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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The place of justice is a hallowed place.

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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