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Quotes from Sir Francis Bacon

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
I take all knowledge to be my province.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...
~ Sir Francis Bacon
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious
~ Sir Francis Bacon
This world's a bubble.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom
~ Sir Francis Bacon
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake...
~ Sir Francis Bacon
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Books speak plain when counselors blanch.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.
~ Sir 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.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
~ Sir Francis Bacon