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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.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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I don't believe art is available it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.
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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.
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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
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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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Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.
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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
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But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.
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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
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