275 ordspråk av Francis Bacon, Sr.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
[Knowledge is] a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures
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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation
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A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison
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A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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A man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
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A man's nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.
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A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.
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A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
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A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open
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A wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, `Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner'.
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