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Francis Bacon

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By indignities men come to dignities.


— Francis Bacon


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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.


— Francis Bacon


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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.


— Francis Bacon


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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.


— Francis Bacon


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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.


— Francis Bacon


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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.


— Francis Bacon


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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.


— Francis Bacon


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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.


— Francis Bacon


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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.


— Francis Bacon


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Science is but an image of the truth.


— Francis Bacon


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About Francis Bacon

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Did you know about Francis Bacon?

In 1588 he became MP for Liverpool and then for Middlesex in 1593. For the next three years he visited Blois Poitiers Tours Italy and Spain. For two years he worked quietly at Gray's Inn until he was admitted as an outer barrister in 1582.

Although his political career ended in disgrace he remained extremely influential through his works especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. AlbanKt. He famously died by contracting pneumonia while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat bringing him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.

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