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Francis Bacon, 1561-1626. First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that came to be known as the inductive method.
  • 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.

  • For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

  • He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

  • As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

  • For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

  • Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

  • It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgement.

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