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Results of search for Author: Sir Francis Bacon - Page 4 of 6 Showing results 31 to 40 of 57 total quotations found.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Death"
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Great Place, 1625
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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.): Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Seditions and Troubles
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

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