Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Francis Bacon quotes, Francis Bacon sayings, and Francis Bacon proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Great hypocrite are the real atheists.Francis Bacon
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Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; 't is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort.Francis Bacon
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.Francis Bacon
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A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.Francis Bacon
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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.Francis Bacon
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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.Francis Bacon
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A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prisonFrancis Bacon
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.Francis Bacon
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Clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and ... mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but embaseth it.Francis Bacon
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.Francis Bacon
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A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.Francis Bacon
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.Francis Bacon
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.Francis Bacon
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Friends are thieves of time.Francis Bacon
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.Francis Bacon
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A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.Francis Bacon
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.Francis Bacon
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The real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new commodities.Francis Bacon
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.Francis Bacon
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.Francis Bacon
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The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.Francis Bacon
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.Francis Bacon
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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...Francis Bacon
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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.Francis Bacon
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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.Francis Bacon
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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
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Money is a good servant but a bad master.Francis Bacon
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.Francis Bacon
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I would live to study, and not study to live.Francis Bacon
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.Francis Bacon