Francis Bacon Quotes About Charity

Quotes about: Charity

• Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Perfect, Mind

  Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.75, Hackett Publishing

• The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Fall, Angel

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag

• In charity there is no excess.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Inspiration, Excess

  Francis Bacon, Peter Shaw (1733). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High-Chancellor of England: Methodized, and made English from the Originals, with occasional notes, To explain what is obscure; and show how far the several PLANS of the AUTHOR, for the Advancement of all the Parts of Knowledge, have been executed to the Present Time”, p.91

• Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Charity, Another Man

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Riches'

• To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Book, Men

  Francis Bacon (1824). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England”, p.11

• Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

  Francis Bacon

  Moving, Science, Men

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1854). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England”, p.11

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