A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

—Francis Bacon

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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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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

—Francis Bacon

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

—Francis Bacon

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

—Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

—Francis Bacon

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

—Francis Bacon

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

—H. L. Mencken

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

—Philip G. Hamerton

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How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

—Margaret Atwood

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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

—George Orwell

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