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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
English author, courtier, & philosopher [more author details]

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.: Sir Francis Bacon
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By far the best proof is experience.: Sir Francis Bacon
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.: Sir Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.: Sir Francis Bacon
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.: Sir Francis Bacon
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.: Sir Francis Bacon
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He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.: Sir Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.: Sir Francis Bacon
I have taken all knowledge to be my province.: Sir 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.: Sir Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.: Sir Francis Bacon
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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.: Sir Francis Bacon
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.: Sir Francis Bacon
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.: Sir Francis Bacon
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.: Sir Francis Bacon
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Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.: Sir Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.: Sir Francis Bacon
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.: Sir Francis Bacon
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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.: Sir Francis Bacon
Silence is the virtue of fools.: Sir Francis Bacon
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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.: Sir Francis Bacon
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.: Sir Francis Bacon
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.: Sir Francis Bacon
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.: Sir Francis Bacon
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.: Sir Francis Bacon
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.: Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Beauty"
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.: Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death"
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.: Sir Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Building, 1623
Knowledge is power. (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est): Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus. (1597)
In charity there is no excess.: Sir Francis Bacon, Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625)
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