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  • Always let losers have their words.

    Francis Bacon (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.201, Cambridge University Press
  • Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

  • Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

  • Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

  • Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

    Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.113
  • Riches are for spending.

    'Essays' (1625) 'Of Expense'
  • Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

    Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.361
  • I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

    Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. Proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws. II. Offer of a digest of the laws. III. Elements, or, Maxims and use of the common law. IV. Cases of treason. V. Four arguments in law ... VI. Draught of an act. VII. Ordinances in chancery. VIII. Reading on the statute of uses. IX. Resuscitatio ... X. Charges. XI. Speeches. XII. Observations on a libel, &c. XIII. Report of Lopez's treason. XI”, p.15
  • O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

    "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh".
  • The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

    Francis Bacon (1826). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works”, p.70
  • the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

  • I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

    Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.532, Cambridge University Press
  • Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

    'Essays' (1625) 'Of Nature in Men'
  • A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

  • Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

    'Essays' (1625) 'Of Wisdom for a Man's Self'.
  • Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

    Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Literary and professional works”, p.726
  • All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

  • Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

    Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria
  • Art is man added to Nature.

  • And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

    Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.125
  • There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

    Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.105, Jazzybee Verlag
  • What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

    "Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.
  • God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

    Essays "Of Gardens" (1625)
  • Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

    Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.349
  • Man was formed for society.

  • For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

    Francis Bacon (1857). “Works of Francis Bacon: 3”, p.377
  • Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

  • I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

  • I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

  • Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.

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    Francis Bacon

    • Born: January 22, 1561
    • Died: April 9, 1626
    • Occupation: Former Lord Chancellor