Francis Bacon Quotes, Love Quotes, Inquiry Quotes

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

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Always let losers have their words.

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

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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 desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

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To know truly is to know by causes.

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