Tag: Francis Bacon
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
Francis Bacon
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon
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Science is but an image of the truth.
Francis Bacon
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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
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon