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Francis Bacon

Time
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
3.3 · 37 votes · 101 reads
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Time
Age will not be defied.
4.8 · 26 votes · 76 reads
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Defects
All colors will agree in the dark.
4.1 · 41 votes · 153 reads
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Feelings
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
4.4 · 25 votes · 82 reads
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Time
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
3.4 · 31 votes · 117 reads
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Society
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
4.6 · 20 votes · 102 reads
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Society
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
4.0 · 60 votes · 87 reads
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Virtues
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
5.0 · 48 votes · 127 reads
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Society
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
3.0 · 16 votes · 86 reads
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Thought and Reason
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
4.1 · 41 votes · 7 reads
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Science and Technology
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
3.9 · 26 votes · 147 reads
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Time
Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
3.8 · 47 votes · 46 reads
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Society
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
4.8 · 36 votes · 188 reads
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Feelings
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.
3.0 · 47 votes · 126 reads
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Virtues
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
3.1 · 26 votes · 167 reads
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Society
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
4.0 · 9 votes · 134 reads
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Various
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.
4.8 · 58 votes · 83 reads
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Society
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
3.7 · 18 votes · 70 reads
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Thought and Reason
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
3.9 · 46 votes · 154 reads
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Time
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
3.2 · 58 votes · 25 reads
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Feelings
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
3.2 · 25 votes · 51 reads
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Various
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
3.8 · 21 votes · 187 reads
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Nature
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
5.0 · 47 votes · 173 reads
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Society
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
5.0 · 53 votes · 33 reads
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Virtues
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
3.0 · 44 votes · 138 reads
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Society
If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
4.4 · 17 votes · 177 reads
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Feelings
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
3.9 · 27 votes · 70 reads
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Virtues
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
4.4 · 43 votes · 132 reads
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Virtues
In charity there is no excess.
3.2 · 43 votes · 115 reads
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Thought and Reason
In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
4.6 · 15 votes · 10 reads
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Thought and Reason
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
4.7 · 51 votes · 69 reads
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Feelings
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
3.3 · 7 votes · 16 reads
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Government and Politics
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
4.7 · 15 votes · 173 reads
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Government and Politics
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
4.4 · 56 votes · 52 reads
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Nature
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
4.2 · 51 votes · 154 reads
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Nature
It is natural to die as to be born.
3.3 · 35 votes · 122 reads
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Time
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.
4.3 · 55 votes · 82 reads
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Society
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
3.2 · 46 votes · 171 reads
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Government and Politics
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
4.8 · 18 votes · 98 reads
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Virtues
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
4.2 · 21 votes · 129 reads
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