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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Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time
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Reading maketh a full man.
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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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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