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Francis Bacon
1561 – 1626 • English • Philosopher
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Showing 138 quotesAs the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.— Francis Bacon
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.— 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.— Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.— Francis Bacon
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.— Francis Bacon
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.— Francis Bacon
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Anger
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.— Francis Bacon
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.— 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.— Francis Bacon