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Quotes by Francis Bacon

Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

Sir Francis Bacon : English statesman, lawyer, philosopher & essayist
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
 
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In charity there is no excess.

Sir Francis Bacon : English statesman, lawyer, philosopher & essayist
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
 
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Sir Francis Bacon : English statesman, lawyer, philosopher & essayist
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
 
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Sir Francis Bacon : English statesman, lawyer, philosopher & essayist
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
 
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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

Sir Francis Bacon : English statesman, lawyer, philosopher & essayist
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, page 348
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"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

Sir Francis Bacon : English statesman, lawyer, philosopher & essayist
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
 
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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

Sir Francis Bacon : English statesman, lawyer, philosopher & essayist
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
 
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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

Sir Francis Bacon : English statesman, lawyer, philosopher & essayist
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Source: Hyperion, Page: 179
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Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you loose your way.

Sir Francis Bacon : English statesman, lawyer, philosopher & essayist
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Sir Francis Bacon : English statesman, lawyer, philosopher & essayist
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
 
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