Francis Bacon

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."
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"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
"Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."
Francis Bacon
"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."
Francis Bacon
"Nothing is terrible except fear itself."
Francis Bacon
"If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
Francis Bacon
"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea."
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
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."
Francis Bacon
"Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly."
Francis Bacon
"Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested."
Francis Bacon
"As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the births of time."
Francis Bacon
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
Francis Bacon
"Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor."
Francis Bacon
"The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude."
Francis Bacon
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."
Francis Bacon
"The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue."
Francis Bacon
"Nature to be commanded must be obeyed."
Francis Bacon
"I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?"
Francis Bacon
"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea."
Francis Bacon
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
Francis Bacon
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