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
either inward love rule
It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
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The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
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The poets did well to conjoin Music And Medicine in Apollo: because the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man's body and to reduce it to harmony.
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When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.
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Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.
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When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
order understanding world
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
inspirational life positive
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...
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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.