Francis Bacon Quotes

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

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God's first creature, which was light.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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