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
man wise
The wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
man true
Man prefers to think what he prefers to be true
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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.
man nature
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. In everything man has accomplished, we have only manipulated nature into doing what it is.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is
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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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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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No man is angry that feels not himself hurt
less life man
The world 's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.
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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he is not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature
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A man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well
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Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man