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
angry feels himself hurt man
No man is angry that feels not himself hurt
dust fly sat tree wheel
It was prettily devised of Aesop, ""The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
serve studies
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
belief best faithful health mind
The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him.
less life man
The world 's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.
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It is scarcely possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from
love loneliness real-friends
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.
book two environmental
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
cradle goes mother sings
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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There are some other that account wife and children but as bills of charges
gives past structure
Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past
What then remains, but that we still should cry,/ Not to be born, or being born, to die?
cry remains
What then remains but that we still should cry for being born, and, being born, to die?