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  The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

  Francis Bacon

  Jobs, Affliction, Ghost

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Adversity'

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• If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Men, Hair

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.498

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• Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

  Francis Bacon

  Fate, Men, Fortune

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• To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

  Francis Bacon

  Sloth, Too Much, Study

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

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• Silence is the virtue of fools.

  Francis Bacon

  Luxury, Silence, Fool

  'De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum' (1640 ed., translated by Gilbert Watts) I, vii, 31

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• In all superstition wise men follow fools.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Men, Superstitions

  1625 Essays, no.17,'Of Superstition'.

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• I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Accomplishment, Age

  Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.532, Cambridge University Press

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• Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

  Francis Bacon

  Book, Speak, Counselor

  "The Essays: Or Councils, Civil & Moral, of Francis Bacon".

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• There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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  Mother, Father, Knowledge

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1850). “The works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England”, p.113

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• Cure the disease and kill the patient.

  Francis Bacon

  Disease, Patient, Cures

  Essays "Of Friendship" (1625)

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• Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

  Francis Bacon

  Apes, Habit, Ifs

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• Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Looks, Blind

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Fortune'

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• The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

  Francis Bacon

  Genius, Spirit, Wit

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• The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Real, Solitude

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1860). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Third edition”, p.306

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• Reading maketh a full man.

  Francis Bacon

  Book, Reading, Men

  Essays "Of Studies" (1625)

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• Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

  Francis Bacon

  Green Plants, Giving, Needs

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.579

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• The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Mirrors, Race

  Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

  Francis Bacon

  Book, Fall, Errors

  "'Hand of God'? Just Ask Sir Isaac Newton" by Jerry Newcombe, www.christianpost.com. January 17, 2014.

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• Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Order

  "Essays". Book by Francis Bacon. Chapter 17: "Of Superstition", 1625.

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• But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

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  Fashion, Philosophy, Believe

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• In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

  Francis Bacon

  Revenge, Men, Enemy

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• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

  Francis Bacon

  Travel, School, Journey

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Travel'

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• Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

  Francis Bacon

  Light, Rivers, Fame

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Praise'

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• You can't be more horrific than life itself.

  Francis Bacon

  Horrific

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• Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

  Francis Bacon

  Beauty, Infinite, Sensible

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