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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
By Francis Bacon
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
By Francis Bacon
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
By Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
By Francis Bacon
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
By Francis Bacon
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
By Francis Bacon
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
By Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
By Francis Bacon
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
By Francis Bacon
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
By Francis Bacon
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
By Francis Bacon
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
By Francis Bacon
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
By Francis Bacon
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
By Francis Bacon
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
By Francis Bacon
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
By Francis Bacon
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
By Francis Bacon