FRANCIS BACON QUOTES VI

English philosopher (1561-1626)

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act.

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Essays

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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Clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and ... mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but embaseth it.

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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over he is superior.

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Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

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Essays

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

FRANCIS BACON

De Augmentis Scientiarum


States as great engines move slowly.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning


It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

FRANCIS BACON

Novum Organum


Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

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"Of Seditions and Troubles," Essays

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In charity there is no excess.

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"Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature," Essays

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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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The Advancement of Learning

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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

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"Of Youth and Age", Essays; or Counsels Civil and Moral

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Discretion of speech, is more than eloquence.

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"Of Discourse," Essays


No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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"Of Truth," Essays

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this -- that men despair and think things impossible.

FRANCIS BACON

Novum Organum

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Time ... is the author of authors.

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The Advancement of Learning

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We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

FRANCIS BACON

Novum Organum

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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Youth and Age", Essays; or Counsels Civil and Moral

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