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Letter "F" » Francis Bacon, Sr. Quotes
«Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.»
«The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.»
«When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter»
«He doth like the ape, that the higher he clymbes the more he shows his ars»
«There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.»
«[Knowledge is] a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Creator, estate, relief, storehouse, storehouses
«It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
crocodiles, devour, shed, The Crocodile, The Crocodiles
«I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
fables, frame, legends, Talmud, The Talmud
«The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
peculiar, supposes
«Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
amber, preserved, royal, spiders, tomb, whence
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