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

Francis Bacon book The Advancement of Learning

Book II, vii, 5
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.”

Francis Bacon

“Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.”

Francis Bacon

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”

Francis Bacon

Variant: He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a God.

“The remedy is worse than the disease.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

Of Seditions and Troubles
Essays (1625)

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

Francis Bacon book Essays

Of Friendship
Essays (1625)

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

Francis Bacon

“Silence is the virtue of a fool.”

Francis Bacon book The Advancement of Learning

Book VI, xxxi
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.”

Francis Bacon

“Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

Of Seditions and Troubles
Essays (1625)
Source: The Essays

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

Of Innovations
Essays (1625)

“Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.”

Francis Bacon

“Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

Source: The Essays

“By far the best proof is experience.”

Francis Bacon

“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”

Francis Bacon

Of Studies
Essays (1625)
Source: The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon

“There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One's Inability to attain One's Heart's Desire-The Other Is To Have It!”

Francis Bacon