Francis Bacon Quotes, Sloth Quotes, Use Quotes

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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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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Reading maketh a full man.

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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The worst men often give the best advice.

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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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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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