“I cannot call Riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.”
Francis Bacon
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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 others lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
Francis Bacon
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“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.”
Francis Bacon
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
Francis Bacon
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“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
Francis Bacon
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“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.”
Francis Bacon
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“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
Francis Bacon
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“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.”
Francis Bacon
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“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
Francis Bacon
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“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.”
Francis Bacon
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“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”
Francis Bacon
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“A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.”
Francis Bacon
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“I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.”
Francis Bacon
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“It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.”
Francis Bacon
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“There are four classes of idols which beset men’s minds. To these for distinction’s sake I have assigned names–calling the firstclass Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theatre.”
Francis Bacon
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“Those who have handled sciences have either been men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; theyonly collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy.”
Francis Bacon
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“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
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“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, andto see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth … and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.”
Francis Bacon
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“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.”
Francis Bacon
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“The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.”
Francis Bacon
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