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Famous Francis Bacon Quotes
“Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?”
“Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.”
“A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.”
“One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.”
“Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.”
“A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.”
“Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.”
“The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.”
“For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.”
“Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.”
“The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.”
“They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.”
“A lie faces God and shrinks from man.”
“There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.”