Francis Bacon Quotes, Dream Quotes, Winter Quotes

Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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Friends are thieves of time.

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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