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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
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Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible enjoy generally a greater share of dignity than of happiness.
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Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
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Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul.
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It is seldom that beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue.
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Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.
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There is nothing that makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and, therefore, men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions to smother.
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The flood of grief decreaseth when it can swell no longer.
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The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.
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I open and lay out a new and certain path for the mind to proceed in, starting directly from the simple sensuous perception.
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It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
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The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
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The difficulties in princes' business are many and great, but the greatest difficulty is often in their own mind.
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The introduction of noble inventions seems to hold by far the most excellent place among human actions.
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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
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A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.
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The honorablest part of talk is to give the occasion, and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance.
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In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.
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There are four classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names — calling the first class, Idols of the Tribe ; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theater.
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and aid authors to read.
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Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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Nor do apothegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use: as being the edge-tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knot of business and affairs.
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Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
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Born:
January 22, 1561
Died:
April 9, 1626
(aged 65)
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.
Known for:
Novum Organum (1620)
Essays (1597)
New Atlantis (1624)
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
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