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Francis Bacon

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Acorns were good until bread was found.


— Francis Bacon


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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.


— Francis Bacon


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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


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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.


— Francis Bacon


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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.


— Francis Bacon


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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.


— Francis Bacon


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God's first creature, which was light.


— Francis Bacon


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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.


— Francis Bacon


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Opportunity makes a thief.


— 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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