Francis Bacon Quotes

• There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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• The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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• The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

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• The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

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• The place of justice is a hallowed place.

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• The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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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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• The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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

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• The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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• The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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• The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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• The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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• Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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• Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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

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• Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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• Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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• Science is but an image of the truth.

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Francis Bacon (265)

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

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Francis Bacon 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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