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Quotes from Francis Bacon

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
~ Francis Bacon
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
~ Francis Bacon
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
~ Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
~ Francis Bacon
Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.
~ Francis Bacon
Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.
~ Francis Bacon
Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.
~ Francis Bacon
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
~ Francis Bacon
O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
~ Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
~ Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
~ Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
~ Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
~ Francis Bacon
There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.
~ Francis Bacon
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
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
~ Francis Bacon
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
~ Francis Bacon
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
~ Francis Bacon
Wonder is the seed of knowledge
~ Francis Bacon
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
~ Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
~ Francis Bacon
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
~ Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
~ Francis Bacon
Ipsa scientia potestas est. Knowledge itself is power.
~ Francis Bacon