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11. "No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth."

 

Category:Truth  

Author:Francis Bacon

12. "A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."

 

Category:Anger  

Author:Francis Bacon

13. "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."

 

Category:Death  

Author:Francis Bacon

14. "Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

 

Category:Wealth  

Author:Francis Bacon

15. "It [friendship] redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in halves."

 

Category:Friendship  

Author:Francis Bacon

16. "They are all ill discoverers that think that there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

 

Category:Atheism  

Author:Francis Bacon

17. "Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man."

 

Category:Atheism  

Author:Francis Bacon

18. "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind."

 

Category:Atheism  

Author:Francis Bacon

19. "Virtue is like a rich stone---best plain set."

 

Category:Character  

Author:Francis Bacon