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    Francis Bacon

    English philosopher and statesman

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  1. 395 quotes from Francis Bacon: 'Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.', '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.', and 'Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.'

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  4. Charity. The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel or man come in danger by it. Francis Bacon: Essays.

    • Meditationes Sacræ
    • The Advancement of Learning
    • Novum Organum
    • Apophthegms
    • The World

    If thou shalt aspire after the glorious acts of men, thy working shall be accompanied with compunction and strife, and thy remembrance followed with distaste and upbraidings; and justly doth it com...

    For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

    Novum Organum Scientiarum also known as The New Organon
    Those who have taken upon them to lay down the law of nature as a thing already searched out and understood, whether they have spoken in simple assurance or professional affectation, have therein d...
    We are wont to call that human reasoning which we apply to Nature the anticipation of Nature (as being rash and premature) and that which is properly deduced from things the interpretation of Nature.

    My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.

    The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.
    Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
    What then remains but that we still should cry Not to be born, or, being born, to die?
  5. We bring to you a collection of sayings and quotes by Francis Bacon on wisdom, advice, opportunity, perseverance, humor, inspiration, materialism, friendship, wine, vision, superstition, observation, God, environment and understanding.

  6. Famous Quotes of Sir Francis Bacon. Source: Bartlett, John. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. Come home to men’s business and bosoms. Dedication to the Essays, Edition 1625. No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. Of Truth. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in ...

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