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The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Men in great place are thrice servants, - servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
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.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
What then remains but that we still should cry for being born, and, being born, to die?
Francis Bacon, Sr.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
