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
anticipation affection beneficial
Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life...
envy affection has-beens
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
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The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
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There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place
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There be that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play well.
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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
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What is it then to have or have no wife, / But single thraldom, or a double strife?
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We cannot too often think there is a never sleeping eye, which reads the heart, and registers our thoughts
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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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But men must know, that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on
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It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
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No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.