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  Francis Bacon Quotes - A man dies as often as he loses his friends   “Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it. Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson” ― Francis Bacon   “[W]hen any of the four pillars of government are mainly shaken or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather.” ― Francis Bacon, The Essays   “For bleeding inwards and shut vapours strangle soonest and oppress most.” ― Francis Bacon, The works of Lord Bacon: with an introductory essay, Volume 1   “A man dies as often as he loses his friends.” ― Francis Bacon   “There be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances.” ― Francis Bacon   “Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” ― Francis Bacon   “For whatever deserves to exi...

  Francis Bacon Quotes - Good thoughts are little better than good dreams, except they be put in action     “A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.” ― Francis Bacon, The Essays   “To choose time is to save time.” ― Francis Bacon   “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few books to be read wholly, and with diligence and attraction.” ― Francis Bacon   “Good thoughts are little better than good dreams, except they be put in action.” ― Francis Bacon, Essays   “We represent300 also all multiplications301 of light, which we carry to great distance, and make so sharp as to discern small points and lines; also all colorations of light:” ― Francis Bacon, New Atlantis and The Great Instauration   “There is n...

  Quotes from Francis Bacon - Knowledge is power   “Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.” ― Sir Francis Bacon   “MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak.” ― Francis Bacon, Delphi Collected Works of Francis Bacon (Illustrated)   “The lame (as they say) in the path outstrip the swift who wander from it, and it is clear that the very skill and swiftness of him who runs not in the right direction must increase his aberration.” ― Francis Bacon   “If in other sc...

  Quotes from Francis Bacon - No body can be healthful without exercise   “If a book is not worth reading twice, it is not worth reading once.” ― Francis Bacon   “No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic: and certainly to a kingdom or state, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.” ― Francis Bacon, The Essays   “Whoseoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. Certain it is that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment.” ― Francis Bacon   “No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and ...

  Quotes from Francis Bacon -  Truth is a good dog   “Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.” ― Francis Bacon   “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   “Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.” ― Francis Bacon   “Whosoever is delighted in Solitude, is either a wild Beast or a God.” ― Sir Francis Bacon   “The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the image of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. So the care of posterity is most in them that they have no posterity.” ― Francis Bacon   ...

  Quotes from William Shakespeare – Have more than thou showest   “But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar   “A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.” ― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors   “If there is a good will, there is great way.” ― William Shakespeare   “Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth, Let's choose executors and talk of wills” ― William Shakespeare, Richard II   “We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet   “Where love is great, ...