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Letter "F" » Francis Bacon, Sr. Quotes
«For none deny there is a God, but those for whom it maketh that there were no God.»
«Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him ... when the hill stood still, he was never a wit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'»
«A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.»
«Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
debases, nuptial, nuptials, perfects, wanton
«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 of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.»
«The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one. Nay, it is obvious that the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
astray, lame, outstrip, outstripped, outstripping, outstrips, runner, runners, runner up, The Runner
«A man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.»
«Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.»
«Knowlege is power.»
«Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
affectation, affectations, incline, sophistry, universities, wits
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