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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
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Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
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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
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Viscount St. Alban
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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
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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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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
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Reading maketh a full man.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
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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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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
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Much bending breaks the bow much unbending the mind.
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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.
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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.
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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.
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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
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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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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
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