1625 · Skopia

Showing 28 works across all media from 1625

1625

★ 7.0

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Chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 7.0

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 7.0

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 6.9

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God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 6.9

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Hope is a good Break-fast, but it is a bad Supper.

Francis Bacon

Apophthegms New and Old · 1625

★ 3.7

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Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 3.7

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 3.7

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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 3.7

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 3.7

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Age will not be defied.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 3.7

Age, that Age appeared to be best in four things: Old Wood best to burn, Old Wine to drink, Old Friends to trust, and old Authors to read.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 3.6

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 3.6

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Prosperity doth best discover Vice; But Adversity doth best discover Vertue.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 3.6

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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry, "A young man not yet, an elder man not at all."

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 3.6

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Prosperity is the Blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the Blessing of the New.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 3.6

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They that deny a God destroy a man's nobility, for certainly man is of a kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 3.5

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Riches are for spending.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 2.0

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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

Francis Bacon

Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · 1625

★ 1.9

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 1.9

Essay · Travel writing

When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 1.9

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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 1.9

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon

Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · 1625

★ 1.9

Perfection is the child of Time.

Joseph Hall

1625

★ 1.9

Essay · Sociology

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public.

Francis Bacon

Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · 1625

★ 1.9

Essay · Travel writing

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 1.9

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A wise man will make more opportunties than he finds.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 1.2

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Prosperity is not without many Feares and Distastes; and Adversity is not without Comforts and Hopes.

Francis Bacon

Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · 1625

★ 1.1