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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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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
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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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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For none deny there is a God, but those for whom it maketh that there were no God.
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For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages.
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The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it
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All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great