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Inspirational Quotes by Francis Bacon
- Knowledge is power.
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
- Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
- Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
- If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
- Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
- Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
- The worst men often give the best advice.
- The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
- If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in…
- Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
- Science is but an image of the truth.
- Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
- He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
- 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…
- Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
- It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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