Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

great

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Francis Bacon

great

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon

happiness

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Francis Bacon

health

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

Francis Bacon

history

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Francis Bacon

hope

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Francis Bacon

humor

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

imagination

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Francis Bacon

imagination

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Francis Bacon

intelligence

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