Quotes by Francis Bacon Sr

History makes people wise.

#History

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to...

#History, #Reading

Houses are built to live in and not to look on.

#Houses

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred...

#Houses

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what...

#Character, #Growth, #Integrity

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek...

#Liberty, #Power

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the...

#History, #Judgement, #Liberty

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

#Limits

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost...

#Losing, #Trying

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

#Magic

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is...

#Medicine, #Poetry

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

#Opportunity, #Wisdom