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Quotes from Francis Bacon

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
~ Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
~ Francis Bacon
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.
~ Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea.
~ Francis Bacon
There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends, but he grieveth the less.
~ Francis Bacon
All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
~ Francis Bacon
A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
~ Francis Bacon
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
~ Francis Bacon
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
~ Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
~ Francis Bacon
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.
~ Francis Bacon
Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.
~ Francis Bacon
Time is the greatest innovator.
~ Francis Bacon
Time is the author of authors.
~ Francis Bacon
If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
~ Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
~ Francis Bacon
I would live to study, not study to live.
~ Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
~ Francis Bacon
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
~ Francis Bacon
The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroical virtue.
~ Francis Bacon
Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
~ Francis Bacon
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
~ Francis Bacon
The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
~ Francis Bacon
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
~ Francis Bacon