Who then to frail mortality shall trust,/ But limns the water, or but writes in dust. - Francis Bacon Quotes
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,/ But limns the water, or but writes in dust. Francis Bacon
 Mortality

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Francis Bacon

 English Philosopher
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.

Francis Bacon

 Communication
Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons - Francis Bacon Quotes

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons

Francis Bacon

 Fathers
It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands - Francis Bacon Quotes

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

Francis Bacon

 Accidents
Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time - Francis Bacon Quotes

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time

Francis Bacon

 Books And Reading
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

Francis Bacon

 Business
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study - Francis Bacon Quotes

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study

Francis Bacon

 Ability
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Francis Bacon

 Ability English Philosopher
There is superstition in avoiding superstitions - Francis Bacon Quotes

There is superstition in avoiding superstitions

Francis Bacon

 
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon Quotes

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon

 Beauty English Philosopher
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