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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.


— Francis Bacon


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Silence is the virtue of fools.


— Francis Bacon


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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.


— Francis Bacon


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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.


— Francis Bacon


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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.


— Francis Bacon


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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.


— Francis Bacon


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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.


— Francis Bacon


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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.


— 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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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.


— Francis Bacon


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About Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon Quotes




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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