FRANCIS BACON QUOTES V

English philosopher (1561-1626)

Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

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Essays

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others.

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Essays

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Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Atheism", Essays

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Art is man added to Nature.

FRANCIS BACON

Descriptio Globi Intellectus

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

FRANCIS BACON

De Augmentis Scientiarum

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Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

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De Augmentis Scientiarum

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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Apothegms

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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Advancement of Learning

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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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Advancement of Learning

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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Goodness and Goodness in Nature," Essays

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Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.

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"Of Nature in Men," Essays

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

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"Of Studies," Essays

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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

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"Of Seditions and Troubles," Essays

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Virtue is like precious odors -- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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"Of Adversity," Essays

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If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.

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"Of Fortune," Essays

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In charity there is no excess.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature," Essays

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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Truth," Essays

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