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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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Good fame is like fire when you have kindled you may easily preserve it but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.
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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.
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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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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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Time is the greatest innovator.
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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.
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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.
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