Francis Bacon Quotes

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Francis Bacon
The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.
Francis Bacon
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis Bacon
The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before.
Francis Bacon
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
I would live to study not study to live.
Francis Bacon
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.
Francis Bacon
If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
Time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Time is the author of authors.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.
Francis Bacon
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.
Francis Bacon
If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
Time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Time is the author of authors.
Francis Bacon
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.
Francis Bacon
Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.
Francis Bacon
Riches are for spending.
Francis Bacon
Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
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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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Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis Bacon
It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon
All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
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Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Francis Bacon
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.
Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.
Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the births of time.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
Francis Bacon
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.
Francis Bacon
Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?
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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
Francis Bacon