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• The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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  Friendship, Men, Giving

  Francis Bacon (2007). “Essays”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

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  Prayer, Believe, Law

  1625 Essays, no.12,'Of Boldness'.

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• It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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  Fear, Mind, Desire

  1625 Essays, no.19,'Of Empire'.

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• Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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  Money, Spread, Change Your Attitude

  Francis Bacon (1842). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England”, p.568

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• Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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  Artist, Thinking, Expression

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• First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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  Mind, Firsts, Clarity

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.211, Lulu.com

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• States are great engines moving slowly.

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  Moving, Government, States

  "Advancement of Learning" (Book II), as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Whatever you can, count.

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  Math, Logic, Reasoning

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• The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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  Wise, Spaniards, Seems

  Essays "Of SeemingWise" (1625)

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• Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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  Home, House, Looks

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Building'

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• Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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  Wise, Men, Vanity

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• There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

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  Fashion, Truth, Discovery

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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  Knowledge, Men, Relief

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 1, ch. 5, sect. 11

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• The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

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  Fall, Men, Self

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Innovations, which are the births of time.

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  Technology, Innovation, Birth

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

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• A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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  Flower, Names, Odor

  Francis Bacon, Alexander Spiers, Basil Montagu (1858). “The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral: and The Wisdom of the Ancients”, p.233

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• The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

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  Knowledge, Knowing, Essentials

  Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.287

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• If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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  Math, Men, Littles

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1821). “A critique of Bacon's "Novum Organum," by Basil Montagu, extracted from the Retrospective Review, 1821. Few MS. notes”, p.285

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• The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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  Support, Understanding, Opinion

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.56

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• Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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  Book, Science, Atheism

  'Resuscitatio' (1657) 'Proposition touching Amendment of Laws'

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• All will come out in the washing.

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  Cleanliness, Washing

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• None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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  Envy, Affection, Has Beens

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• 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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  Sloth, Use, Laziness

  1625 Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

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• Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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  Science, Half, Right Questions

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• It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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  Change, Secret, States

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.347

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