Francis Bacon
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“Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.” -Francis Bacon
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“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.” -Francis Bacon
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“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.” -Francis Bacon
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“What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.” -Francis Bacon
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“Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” -Francis Bacon
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“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.” -Francis Bacon
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“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.” -Francis Bacon
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“Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.” -Francis Bacon
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“Science is but an image of the truth.” -Francis Bacon
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“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.” -Francis Bacon
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“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.” -Francis Bacon
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“Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.” -Francis Bacon
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“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.” -Francis Bacon
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“Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.” -Francis Bacon
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“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.” -Francis Bacon
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“It is impossible to love and to be wise.” -Francis Bacon
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“A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.” -Francis Bacon
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“People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.” -Francis Bacon
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“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.” -Francis Bacon
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“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” -Francis Bacon
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“Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.” -Francis Bacon
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“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.” -Francis Bacon
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“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.” -Francis Bacon
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“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.” -Francis Bacon
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“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.” -Francis Bacon
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“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.” -Francis Bacon
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“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.” -Francis Bacon
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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.” -Francis Bacon
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“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.” -Francis Bacon
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“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.” -Francis Bacon
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“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.” -Francis Bacon
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“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.” -Francis Bacon
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“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.” -Francis Bacon
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“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.” -Francis Bacon
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“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” -Francis Bacon
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“The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.” -Francis Bacon
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“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.” -Francis Bacon
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. – Francis Bacon
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