Francis Bacon Quotes

Francis Bacon (141)

Birth:	22nd January, 1561
Death:	9th April, 1626
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Philosopher, Scientist, Statesman

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• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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• Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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  A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.

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• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.Some

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• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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• By indignities men come to dignities.

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• Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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• Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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• He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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• The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.

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• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

   

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• God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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• We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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• Silence is the virtue of fools.

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• Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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• A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

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• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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• Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

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