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A Quotation from Francis Bacon
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One-A-Day Quotations "If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." - Francis Bacon, "Essays, Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature", 1625
I really like this because it has such strong truth to it
Nice quote. This is fave.
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
-Sir Francis Bacon
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
-Francis Bacon
And if I could find it, I would but this is the quote that I hate:
"Nature is a common little harlot." We've got to "tame her excesses." These are exact words, we have to "squeeze and mold her."
-Francis Bacon
Pretty disturbing eh? As an environmentalist and feminist I was throughly disgusted when I read that quote in high school.