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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.


Francis Palgrave

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FRANCIS BACON It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
FRANCIS BACON In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
FRANCIS BACON Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,...
FRANCIS BACON We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
FRANCIS BACON Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
FRANCIS BACON Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre...
FRANCIS BACON The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
FRANCIS BACON Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
FRANCIS BACON The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
FRANCIS BACON The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
FRANCIS BACON Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
FRANCIS BACON Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
FRANCIS BACON Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
FRANCIS BACON What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
FRANCIS BACON It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is a naked and open daylight
FRANCIS BACON Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit...
FRANCIS BACON There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall...
FRANCIS BACON Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, o...
FRANCIS BACON If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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