Tag: Francis Bacon
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For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
Francis Bacon
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon
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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon
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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Francis Bacon