Francis Bacon Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Speech Quotes

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

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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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Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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