Francis Bacon Short Quotes

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Knowledge itself is power.

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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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We can command nature only by obeying her...

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I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

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Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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My essays... come home to men's business and bosoms.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than confusion.

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Men mark when they hit, and never mark when they miss.

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A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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It is generally better to deal by speech than by letter.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.

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The flood of grief decreaseth when it can swell no longer.

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A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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Death openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguished envy.

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The world's a bubble, and the life of man
Less than a span.

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A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.

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Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul.

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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

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Neither is money the sinews of war (as it is trivially said).

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Death…openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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Contempt putteth an edge upon anger more than the hurt itself.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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