Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

"Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use."
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"Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use."
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
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Francis Bacon
"Time is the author of authors."
Francis Bacon
"Time is the greatest innovator."
Francis Bacon
"Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall."
Francis Bacon
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures."
Francis Bacon
"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."
Francis Bacon
"Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth."
Francis Bacon
"Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread."
Francis Bacon
"Riches are for spending."
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
"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
"Knowledge is power."
Francis Bacon
"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
Francis Bacon
"Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper."
Francis Bacon
"They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations."
Francis Bacon
"It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on."
Francis Bacon
"All rising to great places is by a winding stair."
Francis Bacon
"The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend."
Francis Bacon
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