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All Francis Bacon Quotations:
A bachelor's life is a fine...
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind...
A man must make his opportunity...
A man that studieth revenge keeps...
A prudent question is one-half...
A sudden bold and unexpected question...
A wise man will make more...
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Age appears to be best in...
Anger makes dull men witty, but...
Antiquities are history defaced, or some...
As the births of living creatures...
Beauty itself is but the sensible...
But men must know, that in...
By indignities men come to dignities.
Certainly the best works, and of...
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes...
Choose the life that is most...
Discretion of speech is more than...
Fame is like a river, that...
Fashion is only the attempt to...
For also knowledge itself is power.
For my name and memory I...
Fortitude is the marshal of thought...
Fortune is like the market, where...
Friends are thieves of time.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in...
God Almighty first planted a garden...
God hangs the greatest weights upon...
God has placed no limits to...
God's first creature, which was light.
Good fame is like fire; when...
He that gives good advice, builds...
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
He that hath wife and children...
He that will not apply new...
Hope is a good breakfast, but...
Houses are built to live in...
I do not believe that any...
I had rather believe all the...
I will never be an old...
If a man be gracious and...
If a man will begin with...
If a man's wit be wandering...
If we do not maintain justice...
Imagination was given to man to...
In order for the light to...
In taking revenge, a man is...
It is a strange desire, to...
It is as hard and severe...
It is as natural to die...
It is impossible to love and...
It is in life as it...
It is natural to die as...
Judges must beware of hard constructions...
Judges ought to be more leaned...
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Knowledge is power.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion...
Life, an age to the miserable...
Many a man's strength is in...
Men fear death as children fear...
Money is like manure, of very...
Natural abilities are like natural plants...
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom...
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Next to religion, let your care...
Nothing doth more hurt in a...
Nothing is pleasant that is not...
Of all virtues and dignities of...
Opportunity makes a thief.
People have discovered that they can...
People usually think according to their inclinations...
Pictures and shapes are but secondary...
Prosperity is not without many fears...
Prosperity is the blessing of the...
Read not to contradict and confute...
Reading maketh a full man; conference...
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Revenge is a kind of wild...
Riches are a good hand maiden...
Science is but an image of...
Seek ye first the good things...
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to...
Some books are to be tasted...
Studies perfect nature and are perfected...
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments...
The best part of beauty is...
The correlative to loving our neighbors...
The desire of excessive power caused...
The fortune which nobody sees makes...
The genius, wit, and the spirit...
The great end of life is...
The job of the artist is...
The joys of parents are secret...
The momentous thing in human life...
The pencil of the Holy Ghost...
The place of justice is a...
The remedy is worse than the disease.
The root of all superstition is...
The subtlety of nature is greater...
The way of fortune is like...
The worst men often give the...
The worst solitude is to have...
There is a difference between happiness...
There is a wisdom in this...
There is as much difference between...
There is no comparison between that...
There is no excellent beauty that...
There is nothing makes a man...
Therefore if a man look sharply...
They are ill discoverers that think...
They that will not apply new...
Things alter for the worse spontaneously...
This is certain, that a man...
Travel, in the younger sort, is...
Truth emerges more readily from error...
Truth is a good dog; but...
Truth is so hard to tell...
Truth is the daughter of time...
Virtue is like a rich stone...
We are much beholden to Machiavel...
We cannot command Nature except by...
What is truth? said jesting Pilate...
When a man laughs at his...
Who ever is out of patience...
Who questions much, shall learn much...
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is...
Wise men make more opportunities than...
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions...
Write down the thoughts of the...
Young people are fitter to invent...
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