275 ordspråk av Francis Bacon, Sr.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
For none deny there is a God, but those for whom it maketh that there were no God.
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For the world is not to be narrowed till it will go into the understanding (which has been done hitherto), but the understanding is to be expanded and opened till it can take in the image of the world
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes
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Fortune his like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half
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God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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God Almighty first planted a garden.
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires
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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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Great hypocrite are the real atheists
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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly
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He doth like the ape, that the higher he clymbes the more he shows his ars
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