Francis Bacon Quotes About Expectations

Quotes about: Expectations

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

  Francis Bacon

  Motivational, Hope, Wisdom

  J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 7 (1859) 'Apophthegms contained in Resuscitatio' no. 36

• Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Men, Envy

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

• 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.

  Francis Bacon

  Time, Powerful, Ideas

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