English philosopher (1561-1626)
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
FRANCIS BACON
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
FRANCIS BACON
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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
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
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It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
FRANCIS BACON
Novum Organum
Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.
FRANCIS BACON
The Advancement of Learning
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.
FRANCIS BACON
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Riches are for spending.
FRANCIS BACON
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Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON
De Augmentis Scientiarum
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
All colours will agree in the dark.
FRANCIS BACON
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Knowledge is power.
FRANCIS BACON
Meditationes Sacrae
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
FRANCIS BACON
Apothegms
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
Libraries ... are as the shrines where all the relics of ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays Or Counsels