Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.


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Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
FRANCIS PICABIA
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON
States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON
All beliefs are bald ideas.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
FRANCIS KEPPEL
Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have b...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY
They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from when...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
FRANCIS BACON
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON
Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
FRANCIS CHAN
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON
The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
FRANCIS BACON
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON
If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...
FRANCIS BACON
No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
FRANCIS BACON
Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACON
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
FRANCIS BACON
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
FRANCIS BACON
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
FRANCIS PICABIA
For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit...
FRANCIS PICABIA
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
FRANCIS PICABIA
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b...
FRANCIS BACON
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
FRANCIS BACON
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON