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| Essays Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Houses are built to live in, more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. | Bacon | Essays | |
| 2 | He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. | Bacon | Essays | |
| 3 | A man is an ill husband of his honour, that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can honour him. | Bacon | Essays | |
| 4 | Fame, if like a river, beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. | Bacon | Essays | |
| 5 | Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. | Bacon | Essays | |
| 6 | Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. | Bacon | Francis | Essays |
| 7 | Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested. | Bacon | Francis | Essays |
| 8 | The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought. | Bacon | Francis | Essays |
| 9 | Time is the greatest innovator. | Bacon | Francis | Essays |
| 10 | A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. | Bacon | Francis | Essays |
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