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Letter "F" » Francis Bacon, Sr. Quotes
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«Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.»
«He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.»
«There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.»
«In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place»
«God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
hangs, the smallest, weights, wired, wires, wiring
«The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
choice of words, obstructed, obstructing, obstructs, unfit, unfits, unfitted, unfitting, wonderfully
«Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.»
«If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.»
«Men in great place are thrice servants, - servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Business,
Mankind,
Politics
| Keywords:
servants, sovereign, Sovereign state, thrice
«No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
comparable, comparable to, comparable with, vantage
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