Francis Bacon Quotes

• Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

  Francis Bacon

• As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

  Francis Bacon

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

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

  Francis Bacon

• Acorns were good until bread was found.

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• A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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• A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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• A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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• Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

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  Topics in Wisdom

• Knowledge is power.

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  Topics in Power

• A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in Anger

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

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  Topics in Age

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

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  Topics in Age

• Age will not be defied.

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  Topics in Age

• The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroical virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Tags in Wound

• Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

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  Topics in Age

• Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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  Topics in Family

• 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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  Topics in Advice

• The worst men often give the best advice.

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  Topics in Advice

• If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in Kindness

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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