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Letter "F" » Francis Bacon, Sr. Quotes
«Books will speak plain when counselors blanch»
«The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other»
«Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.»
«The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.»
«The remedy is worse than the disease.»
«Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the viruous.»
«For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
cymbal, gallery, talking picture, tinkle, tinkling
«What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.»
«Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.»
«It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him.»
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