Francis Bacon Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

  Francis Bacon

  Writing, Dust, Water

  'The World' (1629)

• For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

  Francis Bacon

  Rain, Garden, Rivers

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.107, Jazzybee Verlag

• The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

  Francis Bacon

  Color, Sea, White

  Francis Bacon (2014). “Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral”, p.124, The Floating Press

• Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Air, Water

  Francis Bacon (1868). “The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works: Namely Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices and All Authentic Writings Not Already Printed Among His Philosophical, Literary, Or Professional Works”, p.84

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