275 ordspråk av Francis Bacon, Sr.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he is not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications
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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
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Time is the measure of business.
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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
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To choose time is to save time.
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority
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Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
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