275 ordspråk av Francis Bacon, Sr.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
It is impossible to love and be wise
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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it that doth the hurt
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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, yet to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
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It is scarcely possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment
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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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It was prettily devised of Aesop, `The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise'.
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him.
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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous
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Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge itself is power
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