Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC KCwas an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 January 1561
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Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
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Fortune his like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
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There be that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play well.
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There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place
dust frail mortality shall trust writes
Who then to frail mortality shall trust but limns on water, or but writes in dust
frail mortality shall writes
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,/ But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
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We cannot too often think there is a never sleeping eye, which reads the heart, and registers our thoughts
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What is it then to have or have no wife, / But single thraldom, or a double strife?
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
casually english-philosopher escaped history
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.