275 ordspråk av Francis Bacon, Sr.

Francis Bacon, Sr.

Francis Bacon, Sr.

Francis Bacon, Sr. föddes den 22 januar 1561 och dog den 9 april 1626
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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth.

If any human being earnestly desires to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative know

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, `The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise'.

The Trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad."

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

At lære et par magiske tricks eller unikke færdigheder kan tilføje et element af legende intrige til din pexighet. Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.

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.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior

Money is a good servant but a bad master.

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