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| There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| 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. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtue shine and vice blush. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. |
| by Francis Bacon |
| Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own. |
| by Francis Thompson |
| Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. |
| by Francis Palgrave |
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