As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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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.Francis Bacon
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon
The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science) for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped.
Francis Bacon
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
Francis Bacon
To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards Men.
Francis Bacon
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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