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Francis Bacon, Sr. Quotes
«The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Fortune
| Keywords:
asunder, customs, discerned, faculties, fortunate, milky, Milky Way, scarce, smaller, small fortune, small number, The Milky Way
«Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Wives
| Keywords:
companions, middle-aged man, middle age, mistresses, nurses, wives
«Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.»
«It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together, in few words, than in that speech: `Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast, or a god'.»
«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.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Medicine,
Poetry
| Keywords:
conjoin, conjoined, curious, harp, harping, Office of, poets, The Office, the Poets, tune
«Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Boldness
| Keywords:
boldness, council, council of, dangers, execution, inconveniences, whence, with boldness
«Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Ability,
Learning,
Study
| Keywords:
ornaments, studies
