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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The wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
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Measure not dispatch by the time of sitting, but by the advancement of business
great laid mouth rest three
Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he is not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature
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Certainly it is a heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind to move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
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Certainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
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He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
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All rising to a great place is by a winding stair
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All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
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Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one. Nay, it is obvious that the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.