Francis Bacon Quotes

• Light gains make heavy purses.

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• Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep;moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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• If a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.

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• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others.

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

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• To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar.

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• There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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• If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him; or his ends, and so persuade him; or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him, or those that have interest in him, and so govern him.

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• It is better dealing with men in appetite, than with those that are where they would be.

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• It is generally better to deal by speech than by letter.

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• God Almighty first planted a garden; and indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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• That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express.

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• Beauty is as summer-fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last.

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• Chiefly the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.

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• If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles, but use them justly and graciously.

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• When the world was young it begat more children; but now it is old it begets fewer: for I may justly account new plantations to be the children of former kingdoms.

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• If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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• Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.

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• Neither will it be, that a people overlaid with taxes should ever become valiant and martial.

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• Riches are for spending; and spending for honour and good actions.

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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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