FRANCIS BACON QUOTES

English philosopher (1561-1626)

Francis Bacon quote

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

FRANCIS BACON

"An Essay on Death," The Remaines of the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam (Bacon's authorship of this essay has been disputed by some historians.)

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Studies," Essays

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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Essays

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Knowledge is power.

FRANCIS BACON

Meditationes Sacrae

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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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Ambition is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped. But if it be stopped, and cannot have his way, it becometh adust, and thereby malign and venomous.

SIR FRANCIS BACON

"Of Ambition" Essays

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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Essays

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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Essays

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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.

FRANCIS BACON

Advancement of Learning

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God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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Essays

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Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

FRANCIS BACON

De Augmentis Scientiarum

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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Revenge," Essays

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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Essays

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A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays


All colours will agree in the dark.

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Essays

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Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Nature in Men," Essays

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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Essex's Device

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Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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Essays

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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Essays

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The real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new commodities.

FRANCIS BACON

Novum Organum

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