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An English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and father of the scientific method. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount Saint Alban,KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and father of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method and pioneer in the scientific revolution.
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Knowledge is power.
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This world's a bubble.
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Riches are for spending.
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Reading maketh a full man.
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Time is the author of authors.
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Time is the greatest innovator.
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For knowledge too is itself a power.
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Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
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I take all knowledge to be my province.
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I would live to study not study to live.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
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Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper.
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All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
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Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.
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Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.
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Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
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Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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If a man's wit be wandering let him study the mathematics.
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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
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Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
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A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.
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Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
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Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.
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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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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.
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Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they 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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Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.
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Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder a part of experience.
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
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Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.
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Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
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There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
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The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
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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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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
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If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune; for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.
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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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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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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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Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; morals grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.
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There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends but he grieveth the less.
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.
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Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.