Francis Bacon Quotes, Wise Quotes, Men Quotes

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

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

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

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