Francis Bacon Quotes, Nature Quotes, Eye Quotes

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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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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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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