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(1233 votes)  Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(1207 votes)  They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(1105 votes)  That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(1098 votes)  Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(1031 votes)  Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

Kevin Bacon
1958, American Actor

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(870 votes)  Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

Sir Francis Bacon

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(829 votes)  In charity there is no excess.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(806 votes)  The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Sir Francis Bacon

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(787 votes)  There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(772 votes)  Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(764 votes)  The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(704 votes)  The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(694 votes)  Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(656 votes)  He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(388 votes)  Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(385 votes)  Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(368 votes)  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.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(359 votes)  Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(358 votes)  It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(355 votes)  It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ''

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(354 votes)  People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(354 votes)  For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(340 votes)  Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(329 votes)  Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(327 votes)  Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(325 votes)  Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(324 votes)  I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(321 votes)  A good conscience is a continual feast.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(319 votes)  Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(318 votes)  People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(317 votes)  Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(312 votes)  If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(310 votes)  Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(310 votes)  It is natural to die as to be born.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(307 votes)  They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(307 votes)  Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(306 votes)  Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Roger Bacon
1214-1294, British Philosopher, Scientist

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(306 votes)  There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(305 votes)  Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(305 votes)  Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(302 votes)  Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(297 votes)  Riches are for spending.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(297 votes)  For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(296 votes)  God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(295 votes)  Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(294 votes)  Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(290 votes)  Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(289 votes)  As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(284 votes)  Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(279 votes)  Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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