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God's first creature, which was light.

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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
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Human knowledge and human power meet in one for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
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States, as great engines, move slowly.
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
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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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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.
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