English - Philosopher | January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
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Opportunity makes a thief.
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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.
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
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