FRANCIS BACON QUOTES III

English philosopher (1561-1626)


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Concerning speech and words, the consideration of them hath produced the science of grammar. For man still striveth to reintegrate himself in those benedictions, from which by his fault he hath been deprived; and as he hath striven against the first general curse by the invention of all other arts, so hath he sought to come forth of the second general curse (which was the confusion of tongues) by the art of grammar.

FRANCIS BACON
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The Advancement of Learning


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For there are in nature certain fountains of justice whence all civil laws are derived but as streams; and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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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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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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Apothegms

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

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Essays

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

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.

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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


Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

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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.

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Essays


There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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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.

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

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Clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and ... mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but embaseth it.

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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over he is superior.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

FRANCIS BACON

De Augmentis Scientiarum


Do not wonder, if the common people speak more truly than those of high rank; for they speak with more safety.

FRANCIS BACON, Exempla Antithetorum

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