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.'
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in proportion.Francis Bacon
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.Francis Bacon
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.Francis Bacon
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A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.Francis Bacon
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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.Francis Bacon
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The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.Francis Bacon
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.Francis Bacon
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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.Francis Bacon
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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.Francis Bacon
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Behavior seemeth to me as a garment of the mind, and to have the conditions of a garment. For it ought to be made in fashion; it ought not to be too curious; it ought to be shaped so as to set forth any good making of the mind, and hide any deformity; and above all, it ought not to be too straight, or restrained for exercise or motion.Francis Bacon
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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
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.Francis Bacon
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A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.Francis Bacon
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There is no excellent beauty that hath no strangeness in the proportion.Francis Bacon
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.Francis Bacon
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.Francis Bacon
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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.Francis Bacon
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.Francis Bacon
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.Francis Bacon
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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.Francis Bacon
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Death ...openeth the gate to good fame and extinguisheth envy.Francis Bacon
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A prudent question is one half of wisdom.Francis Bacon
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Money is like muck—not good unless it be spread.Francis Bacon
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Age appears to be best in four things. Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.Francis Bacon
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Men fear death, as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.Francis Bacon
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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
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Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfectecth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.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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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
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In all negotiations of difficulties. a man may not look to sow and reap at once but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.Francis Bacon