275 ordspråk av Francis Bacon, Sr.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
But men must know, that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on
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Certainly it is a heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind to move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
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Certainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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Come home to men's business and bosoms.
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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home
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Decided cases are the anchors of the law, as laws are of the state
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Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
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Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
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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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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another
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For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages.
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