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Than Quotes by Francis Bacon
- I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
- Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
- Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
- I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
- Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words,…
- The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
- There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
- The remedy is worse than the disease.
- Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and…
- Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
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