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"The world 's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span."
Francis Bacon / The World.
The World.
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"Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust."
Francis Bacon / The World.
The World.
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"What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die?"
Francis Bacon / The World.
The World.
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"For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages."
Francis Bacon / From his Will.
From his Will.
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"My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads."
Francis Bacon / Apothegms. No. 17.
Apothegms. No. 17.
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"Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones."
Francis Bacon / Apothegms. No. 54.
Apothegms. No. 54.
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"Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes."
Francis Bacon / Apothegms. No. 64.
Apothegms. No. 64.
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"Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.""
Francis Bacon / Apothegms. No. 76.
Apothegms. No. 76.
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"Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears 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 / Apothegms. No. 97.
Apothegms. No. 97.
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"Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone.""
Francis Bacon / Apothegms. No. 193.
Apothegms. No. 193.
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"Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.""
Francis Bacon / Apothegms. No. 206.
Apothegms. No. 206.
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"Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new."
Francis Bacon / Apothegms. No. 247.
Apothegms. No. 247.
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"The great secretary of Nature,--Sir Francis Bacon."
Izaak Walton / Life of Herbert.
Life of Herbert.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain