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161 " Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion. "
― Francis Bacon , The New Organon
162 " The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. "
― Francis Bacon
163 " The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate. "
164 " sejarah menjadikan orang bijaksana, puisi menjadikan orang fasih lidah, matematika menjadikan orang cerdik, filsafat menyebabkan orang berpikir dalam, moral menjadikan orang bersikap sungguh-sungguh, logika dan ilmu berpidato menjadikan orang berani mengeluarkan pendapat. "
165 " Revenge is a king of wild justice. "
166 " Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. "
― Francis Bacon , The Essays
167 " What then remains, but that we still should cryNot to be born, or being born, to die? "
168 " Let every student of nature take this as a rule,-- that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion. "
169 " Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush. "
170 " A small task if it be really daily will beat the efforts of a spasmodic Hercules. "
171 " Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. "
172 " So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. "
173 " It Is The Wisdom Of Crocodiles, That Shed Tears When They Would Devour "
174 " Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied. "
― Francis Bacon , Of Empire
175 " It’s all so meaningless, we may as well be extraordinary. "
176 " Worthy books are not companions - they are solitudes: we lose ourselves in them and all our cares "
177 " God has two textbooks - Scripture and Creation - we would do well to listen to both. "
178 " من يجد بهجته في الوحدة فهو وحش بري او آله "
179 " There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. "
180 " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. "