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Letter "F" » Francis Bacon, Sr. Quotes
«The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self»
«It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it that doth the hurt»
«States as great engines move slowly.»
«Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.»
«Virtue is like a rich stone, - best plain set.»
«The world 's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.»
«This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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aphorisms, applications, disjointed, distinct, toss
«A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.»
«Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.»
«We cannot too often think there is a never sleeping eye, which reads the heart, and registers our thoughts»
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