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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Sir Francis Bacon |
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Quotes By author - Starting with S - Sir Francis Bacon
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There are 152 quotes for the author Sir Francis Bacon
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Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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Miscellaneous
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Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge
Source: Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Appearance & Attitudes
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
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Miscellaneous
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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Conversation
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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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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 a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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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.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Opportunity makes a thief.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
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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.
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