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Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid (Francis Bacon Quotes)
A man’s nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed (Francis Bacon Quotes)
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them (Francis Bacon Quotes)
A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom (Francis Bacon Quotes)
It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together, in few words, than in that speech: Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast, or a god’ (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power pressed too far, and relaxed too much (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils (Francis Bacon Quotes)
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother (Francis Bacon Quotes)
If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him (Francis Bacon Quotes)
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion (Francis Bacon Quotes)
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties (Francis Bacon Quotes)
In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is (Francis Bacon Quotes)
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties (Francis Bacon Quotes)
My name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next are (Francis Bacon Quotes)
We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king (Francis Bacon Quotes)
He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure shall be sure to find matter for his humor, but none for his instruction (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise; for the distance is all told, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves going back (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The images of men’s wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation (Francis Bacon Quotes)
In counsel it is good to see dangers; but in execution not to see them unless they be very great (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The introduction of noble inventions seems to hold by far the most excellent place among human actions (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The problem is, whether a man constantly and strongly believing, that such a thing shall be, it don’t help anything to the effecting of the thing (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Three means to fortify belief are experience, reason, and authority. Of these the more potent is authority; for belief upon reason or experience will stagger (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The master of superstition is the people, and in all superstition wise men follow fools, and arguments are fitted to practice in a reversed order (Francis Bacon Quotes)
It cannot be denied but outward accidents conduce much to fortune’s favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands (Francis Bacon Quotes)
God grant that we may contend with other churches as the vine with the olive which of us shall bear the best fruit; but not as the brier with the thistle, which of us shall be most unprofitable (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Of great riches there is no real use, except in the distribution; the rest is but conceit (Francis Bacon Quotes)