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Francis Bacon Quotes

«Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.»
«For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.»
«All rising to great places is by a winding stair.»
«But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.»
«Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.»
«Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.»
«People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.»
«In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.»
«He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.»
«In civil business; what first? Boldness; what second, and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.»

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