Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Francis Bacon quotes, Francis Bacon sayings, and Francis Bacon proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.Francis Bacon
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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and when there is no comparison, no envy.Francis Bacon
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.Francis Bacon
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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love. Francis Bacon
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.Francis Bacon
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.Francis Bacon
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Much bending breaks the bow much unbending the mind.Francis Bacon
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.Francis Bacon
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They know enough who know how to learn.Francis Bacon
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Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.Francis Bacon
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.Francis Bacon
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Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon
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Cleanliness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.Francis Bacon
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A prudent (grateful) man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied,Francis Bacon
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior...A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.Francis Bacon
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.Francis Bacon
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. Francis Bacon
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In all negotiations of difficulties, a man may not look to sow and reap at once, but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.Francis Bacon
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.Francis Bacon
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Printing, gunpowder, and the mariner's needle (compass), these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world. Francis Bacon
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Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.Francis Bacon
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The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self.Francis Bacon
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.Francis Bacon
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.Francis Bacon
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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.Francis Bacon
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.Francis Bacon