FRANCIS BACON QUOTES V

English philosopher (1561-1626)

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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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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Riches are for spending.

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

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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

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A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act.

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them.

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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

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Clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and ... mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but embaseth it.

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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over he is superior.

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Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others.

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