Tag: Francis Bacon

The world’s a bubble and the life of man Less than a span.

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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

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We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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