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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
By Francis Bacon
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
By Francis Bacon
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
By Francis Bacon
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.
By Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
By Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
By Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
By Francis Bacon
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
By Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
By Francis Bacon
Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
By Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
By Francis Bacon
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
By Francis Bacon
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
By Francis Bacon
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
By Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
By Francis Bacon
For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.
By Francis Bacon
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
By Francis Bacon
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
By Francis Bacon
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
By Francis Bacon
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
By Francis Bacon
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
By Francis Bacon
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.
By Francis Bacon