Francis Bacon Quotes, Running Quotes, Men Quotes

Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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Always let losers have their words.

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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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Whatever you can, count.

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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

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The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

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

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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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