FRANCIS BACON QUOTES VIII

English philosopher (1561-1626)

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them.

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Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act.

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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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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

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A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over.

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It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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Novum Organum


Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.

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The Advancement of Learning

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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

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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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Riches are for spending.

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Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

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De Augmentis Scientiarum

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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All colours will agree in the dark.

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Knowledge is power.

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Meditationes Sacrae

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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Apothegms

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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Libraries ... are as the shrines where all the relics of ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

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Essays Or Counsels

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