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There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.
By Francis Bacon
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
By Francis Bacon
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
By Francis Bacon
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
By Francis Bacon
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
By Francis Bacon
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
By Francis Bacon
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
By Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
By Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
By Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
By Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
By Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
By Francis Bacon