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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Category: Adversity Author: Francis Bacon
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Category: Age Author: Francis Bacon
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Category: Boldness Author: Francis Bacon
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Francis Bacon
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Francis Bacon
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Category: Change Author: Francis Bacon
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Category: Change Author: Francis Bacon
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Category: Confidence Author: Francis Bacon
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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.
Category: Death Author: Francis Bacon
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Category: Environment Author: Francis Bacon
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A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.
Category: Health Author: Francis Bacon
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
Category: History Author: Francis Bacon
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Category: Humor Author: Francis Bacon
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Category: Imagination Author: Francis Bacon
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When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter.
Category: Letters Author: Francis Bacon
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
Category: Marriage Author: Francis Bacon Source: Of Marriage and Single Life
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So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Category: Math Author: Francis Bacon
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Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
Category: Mistakes Author: Francis Bacon
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Category: Nature Author: Francis Bacon
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Category: Opportunities Author: Francis Bacon Source: Essays
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