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| Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. -- Francis Bacon [As anyone who has ever owned a puppy already knows. Ed.] | |
| In charity there is no excess. -- Francis Bacon | |
| Knowledge is power. -- Francis Bacon | |
| Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -- Francis Bacon | |
| We cannot command nature except by obeying her. -- Sir Francis Bacon | |
| Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. -- Francis Bacon | |
| It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. -- Francis Bacon | |
| It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. -- Francis Bacon | |
| They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. -- Francis Bacon | |
| Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. For the experience of age, in things that fall within the compass of it, directeth them; but in new things, abuseth them. The errors of young men are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men amount but to this, that more might have been done, or sooner. Young men, in the conduct and management of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not how they innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly, it is good to compound employments of both ... because the virtues of either age may correct the defects of both. -- Francis Bacon, "Essay on Youth and Age" | |
| The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. -- Francis Bacon | |
| Cure the disease and kill the patient. -- Francis Bacon | |
