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• Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

  Francis Bacon

  Attitude, Boost Self Esteem, Boost Self Confidence

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Wisdom for a Man's Self'.

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• A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

  Francis Bacon

  Kings, Knowledge, Thinking

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.590

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• Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

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  Love, Men, Gold

  'Essay of Death' in The Remaines of...Lord Verulam (1648)

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• No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Science, Understanding

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Intellectual, Tools

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• It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

  Francis Bacon

  Thinking, Errors, Understanding

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

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  Honor, Riches, Action

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.51, 谷月社

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• Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

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  Order, Speech, Speak

  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.349

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• There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

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  Spring, Fall, Autumn

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.105, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Death, Home

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.638

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• Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Atheism, Spirituality

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• For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

  Francis Bacon

  "Collected Works of Francis Bacon".

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• We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Writing

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 2, ch. 2, sec. 9 (1605)

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• Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Needs, Fiction

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• It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Self, Arches

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• The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is not fully appearing is not collected into assertion, whereby error might draw error, but reserved in doubt: the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many
  suckers or sponges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which, if doubts had not preceded, a man should never have advised, but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts, is made to be attended and applied.

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  Philosophy, Men, Errors

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• To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

  Francis Bacon

  Happiness, Sleep, Exercise

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1867). “Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately”, p.231

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• Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

  Francis Bacon

  Next, Sin, Cleanliness

  "Advancement of Learning" by Francis Bacon, (Book II), 1605.

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• Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

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  Men, Simplicity, Secret

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• Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Ornaments

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• Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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  Men, Vices, He Man

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• Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

  Francis Bacon

  Forever, Spiders, Amber

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical works”, p.320

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• 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.'

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Men, Answers

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

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• The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

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  Sacrifice, Support, Understanding

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• Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Years, Age

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.103, 谷月社

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