“ Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. ”
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“ We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. ”
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“ The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ”
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“ Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. ”
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“ For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. ”
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“ Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. ”
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“ Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. ”
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“ Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ”
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“ I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ”
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“ Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man’s self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. ”
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“ Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. ”
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