Best Francis Bacon Sr Quotes
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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life
Custom
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island…
Citizen
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For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages.
Ages
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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
Comparing
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The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light…
Asunder
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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Fortune
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Fortune his like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall
Fall
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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich;…
Character
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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of…
Ape
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History makes people wise.
History
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise.
Believe
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Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
Built
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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had
Both
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Great hypocrite are the real atheists
Atheists
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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Art
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
Body
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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did…
Better
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Adversity
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Justice
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well
Green
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
Justice
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Adversity
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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities,…
All
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There is superstition in avoiding superstitions
Avoiding
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Reading maketh a full man.
Full
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