Quotes about Good by Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon English Philosopher

Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

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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.

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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.

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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