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• Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, Doubt

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• A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspiring, Travel, Men

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.361

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• Opportunity makes a thief.

  Francis Bacon

  Opportunity, Thieves

  'A Letter of Advice to the Earl of Essex...' (1598) in J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Letters and Life of Francis Bacon' vol. 2 (1862) p. 99

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• It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

  Francis Bacon

  Tears, Atheism, Crocodiles

  Essays "Of Wisdom for a Man's Self " (1625)

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• The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

  Francis Bacon

  War, Armor, Strategy

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• All bravery stands upon comparisons.

  Francis Bacon

  Courage, Bravery, Comparison

  Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1853). “The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, with a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil ... Revised from the Early Copies, with the References Now First Supplied, and a Few Notes, by Thomas Markby”, p.115

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• In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

  Francis Bacon

  Business, Men, Looks

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.369

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• Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

  Francis Bacon

  Giving, Treasure, Increase

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• He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

  Francis Bacon

  Advice, Ought

  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.295

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• Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Failure, Frustration

  Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.336

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• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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  Character, Men, Mind

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.462

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• Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

  Francis Bacon

  People, Common, Praise

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• There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Littles, Suspicion

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Suspicion'

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• Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Parent, Wish

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• Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

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  Spiritual, Maturity, Journey

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• Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Riches

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.351

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• A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

  Francis Bacon

  Cat, Shore, Ifs

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• God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

  Francis Bacon

  God, Exercise, Intelligent

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• Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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  Variety Is The Spice Of Life, Pleasant, Variety

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• Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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  Anticipation, Affection, Beneficial

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1844). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author”, p.495

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• One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Forgiving

  Francis Bacon (1861). “Literary and Professional Works”, p.154

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• But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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  Life, Angel, Men

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 20, sect. 8

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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: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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  Life, Fall, Angel

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

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  Beautiful, Love Is, Tree

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