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Great Quotes by Francis Bacon
- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
- When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
- Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics,…
- It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from…
- Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run…
- 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…
- Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of…
- Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
- Money is a great servant but a bad master.
- Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils,…
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