"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. "
― Francis Bacon
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"We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake..."
― 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."
― Francis Bacon
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"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
― Francis Bacon
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"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
― Francis Bacon
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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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"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."
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"It Is The Wisdom Of Crocodiles, That Shed Tears When They Would Devour."
― Francis Bacon
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"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. "
― Francis Bacon
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"Let every student of nature take this as a rule,-- that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion."
― Francis Bacon
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"There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.”
― Francis Bacon
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"A small task if it be really daily will beat the efforts of a spasmodic Hercules."
― Francis Bacon
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"There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
― Francis Bacon
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"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt."
― Francis Bacon
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"If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."
― Francis Bacon
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"The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them."
― Francis Bacon
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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed and digested."
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"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel."
― Francis Bacon
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"Knowledge is a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate."
― Francis Bacon
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"The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude."
― Francis Bacon
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Nationality: British |
Born: January 22, 1561 |
Died: April 9, 1626 |
profesion:Philosopher, Statesman, Scientist, Jurist, Orator, Essayist, and Author |
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