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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban,[a] PC KC (/ˈbeɪkən/; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.

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Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

Afraid, Hath, Humor, Memories, Memory, Men

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

Inspiration, Needs, Paint, Say

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

Know, Men, Robber, Should Have, Vanity

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

Cut, Cutting, Old, Old Things, Revolution, Serve

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Commonly, Life, Success, Time, Unsought, Write

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Commanded, Inspirational, Life, Nature, Obeyed

But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

Hence, Science, Sight, Strike, Understanding

Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Book, Names, Recover, Stories, Tabula

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

Agree, Divine, People, Together, Voice

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Bad, Master, Masters, Money, Servant

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Attentively, Blind, Invisible, Looks, Man, Men

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Anger, Forgiveness, Green, Keeps, Revenge, Studieth

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

Action, Actions, Good, Honor, Riches, Worth

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not. ' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. '

Anger, Christian, Down, Let, Stoics, Wrath

Truth is a naked and open daylight

Daylight, Naked, Open, Truth

For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

Doe, Foundation, Good, History, Imagine, Religion

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

Dragons, Hence, Move, Moving, Names, Science

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

Praise, Reflection, Virtue

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

Conclusions, Number, Numbers, Order, Support, Weight

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Pleasant, Spiced, Variety, Variety Is The Spice Of Life

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