Francis Bacon

(24 votes)   The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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(14 votes)   It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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(13 votes)   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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(594 votes)   Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(582 votes)   For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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(532 votes)   That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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(353 votes)   The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

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(342 votes)   Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

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(329 votes)   Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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(301 votes)   It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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(300 votes)   Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

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(251 votes)   Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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(220 votes)   Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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(211 votes)   In charity there is no excess.

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(210 votes)   It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ''

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