{"author":"Francis Bacon","author_id":"Francis+Bacon","total_quotes":164,"quotes":[{"text":"We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who 'showeth His wonders in the deep'; beseeching Him of His mercy, that as in the beginning He discovered the face of the deep, and brought forth dry land, so He would now discover land to us, that we might not perish.","author":"Francis Bacon","tags":["despair","god","hope","lost","prayer"],"id":1091,"author_id":"Francis+Bacon"},{"text":"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.","author":"Francis Bacon","tags":["nature"],"id":1847,"author_id":"Francis+Bacon"},{"text":"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.","author":"Francis Bacon","tags":["discovery","object-constancy","open-mindedness"],"id":6510,"author_id":"Francis+Bacon"},{"text":"For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.","author":"Francis Bacon","tags":["knowledge","mathematics","planksip","wisdom"],"id":7046,"author_id":"Francis+Bacon"},{"text":"Little do men perceive what solitude is  and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company  and faces are but a gallery of pictures  and talk but a tinkling cymbal  where there is no love.","author":"Francis Bacon","tags":["loneliness"],"id":11708,"author_id":"Francis+Bacon"},{"text":"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.","author":"Francis Bacon","tags":["men","witty","poor "],"id":14020,"author_id":"Francis+Bacon"},{"text":"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.","author":"Francis Bacon","tags":["speak","people","think "],"id":16532,"author_id":"Francis+Bacon"},{"text":"Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.","author":"Francis Bacon","tags":["friendship","wine"],"id":17491,"author_id":"Francis+Bacon"},{"text":"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.","author":"Francis Bacon","tags":["truth","daughter","truth is "],"id":20024,"author_id":"Francis+Bacon"},{"text":"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.","author":"Francis Bacon","tags":["opportunity","perseverance","wisdom"],"id":21589,"author_id":"Francis+Bacon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":164,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}