Quotes By Sir Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
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I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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