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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
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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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Baron of Verulam Bacon
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Viscount St. Albans Verulam
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Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
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Viscount St. Alban
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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Time is the author of authors.
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
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Praise is the reflection of virtue.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
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Great changes are easier than small ones.
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Nothing is to be feared but fear.
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The master of superstition, is the people and in all superstition, wise men follow fools and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.
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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
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