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Francis Bacon

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

-Francis Bacon

age

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

-Francis Bacon

age

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

-Francis Bacon

age

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

-Francis Bacon

age

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

-Francis Bacon

anger

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

-Francis Bacon

anger

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

-Francis Bacon

art

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

-Francis Bacon

art

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

-Francis Bacon

beauty

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

-Francis Bacon

beauty

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

-Francis Bacon

beauty

The worst men often give the best advice.

-Francis Bacon

best

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

-Francis Bacon

best

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

-Francis Bacon

best

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

-Francis Bacon

best

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

-Francis Bacon

best

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

-Francis Bacon

best

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

-Francis Bacon

business

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

-Francis Bacon

change

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

-Francis Bacon

change

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

-Francis Bacon

death

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

-Francis Bacon

death

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

-Francis Bacon

education

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

-Francis Bacon

experience

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

-Francis Bacon

experience

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

-Francis Bacon

experience

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

-Francis Bacon

fear

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

-Francis Bacon

fear

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

-Francis Bacon

friendship

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

-Francis Bacon

gardening

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

-Francis Bacon

god

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

-Francis Bacon

god

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

-Francis Bacon

god

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

-Francis Bacon

god

Francis Bacon

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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