Francis Bacon Quotes, Book Quotes, Fall Quotes

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

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For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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

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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

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