Francis Bacon

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Biography : English philosopher and statesman.
Born: 1561 - Died: 1626
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Francis Bacon - Quotes

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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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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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
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God's first creature, which was light.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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death

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
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philosophy

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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time

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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truth

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
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Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
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truth

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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beauty

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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life

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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love

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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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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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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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art

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
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life