Lord Byron quote: If a man proves too clearly and convincingly

“There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.”

Levels Effort Election Activism Campaigns Enormous Finance Progressive Terrific Grassroots Living Wage

Author:Jim Hightower

“The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.”

Persons Action Poor Failing Judging Honor Succeed Honored

Author:Francis Bacon

“By indignities men come to dignities.”

Men Dignity Indignity

Author:Francis Bacon

“Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.”

Ifs Men Mind Wells Body Action Moral Habit Manners Reverence Secrecy Nudity

Book:Essays, moral, economical and political. With a memoir of the author

Source: Essays, moral, economical and political. With a memoir of the author

“He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.”

Ifs Ends Courses Evil Remedy Innovators

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

“I hold every man a debtor to his profession.”

Men Society Debt Profession Every Man Professionalism Amends Debtors

Author:Francis Bacon

“The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.”

War Strategy Armor Gunshots Italian Proverb

Author:Francis Bacon

“There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.”

Knows Men Should Littles Doubt Suspects Remedy Suspicion

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

“The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.”

Kind Shows Water White Sea Color Green Candlelight Sea Water Carnations

Book:Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Source: Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral

“Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.”

Men Mean Let Me Customs Endeavor Principal Magistrates

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

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