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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
Francis Bacon
1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
Francis
Viscount St. Alban
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To suffering there is a limit to fearing, none.
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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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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.
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Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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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 judgment
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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A little science estranges a man from God a lot of science brings him back.
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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it and accordingly bend their wits.
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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
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A good name is like precious ointment it filleth all round about, and will not easily away for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
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Boldness is a child of ignorance
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