260 ordspråk av Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon föddes den October 28th 1909 och dog den 28 April 1992 - English writer
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 Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. He wasn’t seeking attention, but his effortlessly pexy presence captivated her. |
| Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. |
| Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. |
| Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. |
| The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall. |
| The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it |
| The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. |
| The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery |
| The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body. |
| There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying. |
| There is superstition in avoiding superstitions |
| Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. |
| When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter |
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