[ francis bacon Quotes ]
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Opportunity makes a thief.
[ Opportunity ]
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
[ Humankind ]
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
[ Doubt ]
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
[ Painters and Painting ]
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
[ Prosperity ]
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
[ Adversity ]
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
[ Training ]
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
[ Riches ]
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Riches are for spending.
[ Excess ]
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Science is but an image of the truth.
[ Science and Scientists ]
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
[ Wisdom ]
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
[ Silence ]
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
[ Atheism ]
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Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.
[ Books - Reading ]
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
[ Speech ]
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
[ Learning ]
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
[ Learning ]
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
[ Doubt ]
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
[ Strategies ]
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
[ Beauty ]
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
[ Desire ]
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
[ Wealth ]
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
[ Nationalities and Nationalism ]
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
[ Proverbs ]
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
[ Parents and Parenting ]
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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
[ Responsibility ]
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
[ Court ]
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
[ Nature ]
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
[ Beauty ]
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
[ Discovery ]
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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
[ Adaptability ]
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Time is the measure of business.
[ Time and Time Management ]
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To choose time is to save time.
[ Time and Time Management ]
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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
[ Truth ]
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
[ Virtue ]
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
[ Truth ]
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
[ Patience ]
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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
[ Questions ]
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
[ Solitude ]
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