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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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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In civil business; what first? Boldness; what second, and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
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He doth like the ape, that the higher he clymbes the more he shows his ars
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It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion
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Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.
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He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own
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It is impossible to love and be wise
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
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Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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No man is angry that feels not himself hurt
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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all