{"id":1010,"date":"2013-09-05T07:52:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T07:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2013-09-05T07:52:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T07:52:32","slug":"francis-bacon-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"Francis Bacon quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Quotation<\/a>Bacon, Francis (1561 – 1626), English author, courtier, & philosopher
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\nChoose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.<\/p>\n

<\/i>There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.<\/p>\n

<\/i>In charity there is no excess.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.<\/p>\n

<\/i>He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.<\/p>\n

<\/i>If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.<\/p>\n

<\/i>In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Silence is the virtue of fools.<\/p>\n

<\/i>By far the best proof is experience.<\/p>\n

<\/i>I have taken all knowledge to be my province.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man’s nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.<\/p>\n

<\/i>The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.<\/p>\n

<\/i>They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Knowledge is power.<\/p>\n

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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