Tag: Francis Bacon
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
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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
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Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
Francis Bacon
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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.
Francis Bacon
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
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If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon