Francis Bacon Quotes

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.

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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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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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

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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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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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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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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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Knowledge is power.

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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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By indignities men come to dignities.

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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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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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Friends are thieves of time.

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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