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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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Collection: Best
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Good
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Men
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Gardening
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Wisdom
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: History
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Knowledge
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Truth
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Travel
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Death
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Age
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Beauty
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Patience
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Health
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Men
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: God
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Time
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Wisdom
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Women
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Nature
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Wisdom
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Science is but an image of the truth.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Truth
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Art
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Men
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Friends are thieves of time.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Time
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Knowledge is power.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Knowledge
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Religion
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Nature
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No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: War
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: God
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Nature
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Beauty
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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.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Men
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Wisdom
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Good
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Good
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Beauty
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Humor
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Money
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Experience
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Truth
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Knowledge
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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Knowledge
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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Religion
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Nature
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Education
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Learning
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Time
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Nature
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Strength

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