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• I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Mind, Atheism

  Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

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• That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Smell, Yield

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.509

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• Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Friendship, Grief

  1625 Essays, no.27,'Of Friendship'.

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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

  Men, Judging, Merit

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

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• Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, Overcoming

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Nature in Men'

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• Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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  Witty, Integrity, Judging

  "Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral".

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• And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

  Francis Bacon

  Failure, Math, May

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.125

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• Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

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  Peace, Fighting, Cutting

  Francis Bacon, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Rawley (1861). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces”, p.372

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• There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

  Francis Bacon

  Mean, Science, Men

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Men, Hair

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.498

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• Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Hands, Law, Mind

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• Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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  Witty, Men, Thinking

  Francis Bacon (1838). “The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay”, p.263

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• Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Light, Triumph

  Francis Bacon (1852). “The essays or counsels civil and moral and wisdom of the Ancients by Francis (Bacon) Lord Verulam: Edited by B[asil] Montagu”, p.2

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• Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Progress

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• Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

  Francis Bacon

  Teacher, Names, Monument

  Francis Bacon (1753). “The Works...”, p.37

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• A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

  Francis Bacon

  Depressing, Men, Hands

  Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor”, p.310

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• Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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  Daughter, Mother, Religion

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• 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.

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  Time, Powerful, Ideas

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• In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

  Francis Bacon

  Voice, Weight, Chance

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Cunning'

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• Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Doubt, Overcoming Doubt

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• For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Men, Belief

  'Novum Organum' (1620) bk. 1, Aphorism 49 (translated by J. Spedding).

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• There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Religious, Law

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.526

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• I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Vanity, Should Have

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• I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Men, May

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Dispatch'

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• To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Anger, Sins Not

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1867). “Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately”, p.296

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