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Which Quotes by Francis Bacon
- There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
- This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
- God's first creature, which was light.
- As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together:…
- The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
- Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
- The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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