Francis Bacon Quotes
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. For also knowledge itself is power. For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Friends are thieves of time. Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. God's first creature, which was light. Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. He that hath knowledge spareth his words. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
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