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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
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount Saint Alban
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
Proverbs
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Nation
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.
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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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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
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Praise is the reflection of virtue.
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands
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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.
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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.
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