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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban
Francis Bacon, was born on the 22nd of January, 1561 and died on the 9th
of April, 1626. Francis Bacon was born at York House Strand, London, in
Great Britain.
Published works from Sir Francis Bacon include "Valerius Terminus
of the Interpretation of Nature", "The Wisdom of the Ancients"
and "The New Atlantis".
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- A wise man will
make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon Quote
- Beauty itself is
but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon Quote
- Choose the life
that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon Quote
- Prosperity is the
blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon Quote
- The desire of power
in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess
caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel
or man come in danger by it.
Francis Bacon Quote
- Prosperity is not
without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts
and hopes.
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- The justest division
of human learning is that derived from the three faculties of the soul,
the seat of learning: History being relative to the memory, poetry to
the imagination, and philosophy to the reason.
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- Those who aspire
not to guess and divine, but to discover and know, who propose not to
devise mimic and fabulous worlds of their own, but to examine and dissect
the nature of this very world itself, must go to facts themselves for
everything.
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