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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Fortune his like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate
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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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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.