Quotes 161 till 180 of 197.
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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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There is a superstition is avoiding superstition.
Of superstition -
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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There is no excellent beauty that has not some strangeness in the proportion.
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625) -
There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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