The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
More Quotes from Francis Bacon:
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.Francis Bacon
The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense the last was the light of reason And his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Francis Bacon
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
Francis Bacon
When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.
Francis Bacon
In civil business what first boldness what second and third boldness and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
Francis Bacon
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon
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