Quote by Francis Bacon
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. - Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of mans body. – Francis Bacon

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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. – Francis Bacon

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The best way to keep ones word is not to give it. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. – Doris Lessing

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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman

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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one – they show one another off to the best advantage. – William Hazlitt

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Every path hath a puddle. – George Herbert, “Jacula Prudentum”

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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. – Huey Newton

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Why not learn to enjoy the little things — there are so many of them. – Author Unknown

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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. – Luigi Pirandello

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