Quotes by Francis Bacon
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
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Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion.
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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... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
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So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
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