Quotes by Francis Bacon

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the...

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be...

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

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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the...

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments...

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but...

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God's first creature, which was light.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us,...

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the...

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

#Francis Bacon