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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.
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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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I believe in deeply ordered chaos
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.
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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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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.
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Journeys at youth are part of the education but at maturity, are part of the experience.
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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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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge
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