Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 3

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• He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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  Hands, Giving, Advice

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• For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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  Love, Loneliness, Real Friends

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Friendship'

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

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  Masters, Servant, Ifs

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• In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

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  Forgiveness, Revenge, Anger

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.515

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• Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

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  Photography, Jesus, Light

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• Science is but an image of the truth.

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  Truth, Science, Scientist

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• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

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  Men, Roots, Missing

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• Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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  Painting, Interpretation

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• Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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  Education, Latin, Knowledge

  'Meditationes Sacrae' (1597) 'Of Heresies'

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• They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

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  Potatoes, Ancestor, Valuable

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• Always let losers have their words.

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  People, Loser

  Francis Bacon (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

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• A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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  Lunch Break, Cooking Dinner, Breakfast

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• The worst men often give the best advice.

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  Inspirational, Men, Giving

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• Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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  Inspirational, Life, Choices

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

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  Wise, Peace, Hurt

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Cunning'

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• Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

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  Nature, Science, Doubt

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• Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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  Inspiration, Speech, Tact

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1871). “A harmony of the essays, etc. of Francis Bacon”, p.21

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• The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

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  Encouragement, Wonder, Snowflake

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• It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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  Fate, Men, Well Known

  Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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  Happiness, New Beginnings, Loss

  Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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• The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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  Fear, Parenting, Grieving

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• Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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  Life, Change, Philosophical

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• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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  Marriage, Wedding, Men

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Marriage and the Single Life'

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• I would live to study, not study to live.

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  Study

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