Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

—Francis Bacon

About Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued for the importance of natural philosophy, guided by the scientific method, and his works...

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

—Francis Bacon

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

—Francis Bacon

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

—Francis Bacon

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

—Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

—Francis Bacon

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The Amen of nature is always a flower.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

—Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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Nature does nothing in vain.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

—John Burroughs

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