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
inspired labours port sacred
Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
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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.
custom magistrate principal
Custom is the principal magistrate of man's life.
study
I would live to study, and not study to live.
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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.
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Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
great laid mouth rest three
Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
strength
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use
man true
Man prefers to think what he prefers to be true
petty self whom
The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self
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If any human being earnestly desires to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative know
man shall though
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.