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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon
Age
Man
Old
Will
Years
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
Content
End
Man
Will
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis Bacon
God
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon
God
Exercise
Grave
Intellect
Limits
God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon
God
First
Light
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Francis Bacon
Fame
Fire
May
Will
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
Advice
Example
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon
Knowledge
Words
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
Wife
Virtue
Children
Fortune
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Time
Remedies
Will
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
Hope
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon
Houses
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon
Life
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon
Man
Strangers
World
Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon
Time
Friends