Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. Francis Bacon More Quotes by Francis Bacon More Quotes From Francis Bacon The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury. Francis Bacon tragedy love men The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. Francis Bacon freedom nature art Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had Francis Bacon painting art Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it. Francis Bacon anger men children The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. Francis Bacon honesty fear motivational Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? Francis Bacon taken men lying Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. Francis Bacon causes body evil It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. Francis Bacon science death children He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Francis Bacon virtue wife children Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. Francis Bacon mind-your-own-business heart friendship Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. Francis Bacon arrows coward dark Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. Francis Bacon please shapes memories To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. Francis Bacon laziness sloth use Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients. Francis Bacon wisdom The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love. Francis Bacon hyperbole perpetual love It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. Francis Bacon fear mind desire God loveth the clean. Francis Bacon cleanliness god-love appearance Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God. Francis Bacon cleanliness next sin The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center. Francis Bacon stars roots together Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come. Francis Bacon dumb white wings
