English - Philosopher | January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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