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Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist and author. He served both as Attorney General and 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.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are t...

Francis Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Francis Bacon

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

Francis Bacon

But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.

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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

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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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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Francis Bacon

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Francis Bacon

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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

Francis Bacon

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.

Francis Bacon

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

Francis Bacon

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but...

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Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildings, of shipping and navigation, of service and attendance, of fame and renown, and the like, yet he maketh no claim to any of those glories, but only...

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And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof makes the fable, that when he died he told his sons that he had left unto them gold buried under the ground in his vineyard: and they digged over the groun...

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Author Bio

  • NameFrancis Bacon
  • DescriptionEnglish philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
  • AliasesFrancis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban
  • BornJanuary 22, 1561
  • DiedApril 19, 1626
  • CountryKingdom Of England
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Writer; Judge; Politician