73 quotes by Francis Bacon

“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.” — Francis Bacon

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“God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.” — Francis Bacon

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“Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.” — Francis Bacon

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“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.” — Francis Bacon

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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

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“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.” — Francis Bacon

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“Acorns were good until bread was found.” — Francis Bacon

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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.” — Francis Bacon

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“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.” — Francis Bacon

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“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.” — Francis Bacon

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“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.” — Francis Bacon

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“Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.” — Francis Bacon

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“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” — Francis Bacon

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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.” — Francis Bacon

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“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.” — Francis Bacon

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“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.” — Francis Bacon

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“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.” — Francis Bacon

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“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.” — Francis Bacon

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“People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.” — Francis Bacon

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“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.” — Francis Bacon

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“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.” — Francis Bacon

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“By indignities men come to dignities.” — Francis Bacon

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“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.” — Francis Bacon

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“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.” — Francis Bacon

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“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.” — Francis Bacon

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