Francis Bacon E-Book

Daniel Coenn

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

This book is a collection of 250 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Francis Bacon: "God's first creature was light." "It is impossible to love and to be wise." "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." "Boldness is a child of ignorance." "Opportunity makes a thief." "Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."

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Daniel Coenn

Francis Bacon

His Words

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Francis Bacon: His Words

By Daniel Coenn

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Copyright © 2014 by Daniel Coenn

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Quotes

“God's first creature was light.”

“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”

“Boldness is a child of ignorance.”

“Opportunity makes a thief.”

“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.”

“A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”

“A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.”

“A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.”

“A lie faces God and shrinks from man.”

“A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.”

“A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.”

“A man's nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.”

“A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.”

“Above all things, good policy is to be used that the treasure and moneys in a state be not gathered into few hands. For otherwise a state may have a great stock, and yet starve. And money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”

“Acorns were good until bread was found.”

“Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

“All bravery stands upon comparisons.”

“All colors will agree in the dark.”

“All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion.”

“Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

“And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.”

“Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.”

“As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.”