Francis Bacon Quotes, Cutting Quotes, Old Things Quotes

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

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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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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

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Great changes are easier than small ones.

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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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

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