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Letter "F" » Francis Bacon, Sr. Quotes
«God Almighty first planted a garden.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
Almighty, God Almighty, planted
«I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.»
«For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
charitable, Leave It, Speeches
«Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
erect, poesy, shews, submitting
«He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.»
«There is superstition in avoiding superstitions»
«He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all»
«There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise»
«Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority»
«People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.»
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