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Francis Bacon

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.


— Francis Bacon


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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.


— Francis Bacon


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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.


— Francis Bacon


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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.


— Francis Bacon


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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.


— Francis Bacon


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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.


— Francis Bacon


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Opportunity makes a thief.


— Francis Bacon


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It is natural to die as to be born.


— Francis Bacon


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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.


— Francis Bacon


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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.


— Francis Bacon


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About Francis Bacon

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Did you know about Francis Bacon?

In 1588 he became MP for Liverpool and then for Middlesex in 1593. For the next three years he visited Blois Poitiers Tours Italy and Spain. For two years he worked quietly at Gray's Inn until he was admitted as an outer barrister in 1582.

Although his political career ended in disgrace he remained extremely influential through his works especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. AlbanKt. He famously died by contracting pneumonia while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat bringing him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.

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